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A. Sumru Özsoy

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A. Sumru Özsoy
NationalityTurkish
CitizenshipTurkey
Alma materRobert College
Boğaziçi University
University of Michigan
Known forStructure of Turkish
Scientific career
FieldsSyntax and morphology of Turkish, cognitive science
InstitutionsBoğaziçi University

A. Sumru Özsoy is a leading linguist and Turkish academic working at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.

Education

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Özsoy received a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Robert College in 1971.[1] She obtained a master's degree in linguistics from Boğaziçi University in 1975 and a PhD in linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1983.[1] Title of her PhD thesis is "Kendi-reflexivization in Turkish: A syntactic, semantic and discourse analysis".[2][3]

Career

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Özsoy started her career as an English instructor in 1972.[4] She was a teaching assistant at the University of Michigan from 1977 to 1983. Then she joined Boğaziçi University in 1983 and became professor of linguistics at the Department of Western Languages and Literatures in 1994.[4][5] She took part in the founding of the Linguistics Department of Boğaziçi University and was forced to retired in 2022 by the appointed rector Naci İnci who has close relations with AK Parti.[6] Her entry to the campus was forbidden unlawfully.[7]

She represents the Turkish Linguistics Community at the Permanent International Committee of Linguists (CPIL).[8]

Work

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Özsoy's fields of study are syntax, structure of Turkish, Caucasian languages, cognitive linguistics, sign languages and Turkish Sign Language.[1] She is one of the linguists who studied the now extinct language Ubykh focusing on its syntax.[9][10] She studied with Tevfik Esenç, the last fluent speaker of Ubykh, in his later years.[9] She organized an international conference, namely Conference on Northwest Caucasian Linguistics, at Boğaziçi University in 1994 in memory of Georges Dumézil, who analysed the language in detail, and Esenç.[9]

She is the author of several books,[11] including Türkçe-Turkish (1999) and Türkçe'nin Yapısı. Sesbilim (2004; Structure of Turkish. Phonology).[12][13] She has also published numerous articles in her fields of study.[4][14]

She was the coeditor of Dilbilim Araştırmaları from 1990 to 2011[15] and has been among the editors of Turkic Languages since 1997 which is published by the Harrassowitz publishing house.[4][16]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Prof. Dr. A. Sumru Özsoy". Boğaziçi University. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  2. ^ Ayşe Sumru Özsoy (1983). Kendi-reflexivization in Turkish: A syntactic, semantic and discourse analysis. University of Michigan.
  3. ^ Palaz, Bilge. "kendi / kendisi, and the Clause Structure of Turkish". BU Linguistics Program. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d "Sumru Ozsoy's homepage". Boğaziçi University. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  5. ^ "Current Directions in Turkish Sign Language Research" (PDF). CSP. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
  6. ^ Duvar, Gazete (24 August 2022). "Boğaziçi Üniversitesi'nden 16 akademisyen daha uzaklaştırıldı". www.gazeteduvar.com.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  7. ^ "Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, girişini yasakladığı hocanın kitabını satıyor". Politikyol (in Turkish). Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  8. ^ "General Assembly". The Permanent International Committee. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
  9. ^ a b c E. F. K. Koerner (1 January 1998). First Person Singular III: Autobiographies by North American Scholars in the Language Sciences. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 33. ISBN 978-90-272-4576-2. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  10. ^ Şule Arasan (27 February 1988). "Ubıhların son sesi". Nokta. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  11. ^ "Özsoy, A. Sumru". WorldCat Identities. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
  12. ^ "Türkçe'nin Yapısı 1 Sesbilim". Idefix. Archived from the original on 18 October 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  13. ^ Sumru Özsoy, A. (1999). Turkce = Turkish. ISBN 975518130X.
  14. ^ Yuji Kawaguchi; Makoto Minegishi; Jacques Durand (2009). Corpus Analysis and Variation in Linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 978-90-272-0768-5. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
  15. ^ "Contents". Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 31 October 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  16. ^ "Turkic Languages". Harrassowitz Verlag. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
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