Recent decades have seen an increase in research informing our understanding of the
complex ways in which bilingual development is shaped by biological, cognitive, and …

This study investigates the characteristics of narrative-speech production and the use of
verbs in Turkish agrammatic speakers (n= 10) compared to non-brain-damaged controls (n …

Background Polysynthetic languages can be roughly defined as languages which have an
extreme morphological complexity. They present a range of challenges to linguistic and …

Cross-linguistically prevalent semantic distinctions are widely assumed to be easier to learn
because they reflect natural concepts. Here we propose an alternative, pragmatic …

In this paper we argue that evidentiality can be a category of a linguistic system that
emerges from the intersection between form, usage and 'contextual situatedness'. We …

In PWA (people with aphasia) difficulties with sentences that refer to the past compared to
non-past time reference have been shown for many languages, including Turkish. However …

Evidentiality, the linguistic indication of information sources from which a speaker knows his
statement, is grammatically obligatory and is expressed through inflectional morphology for …

Bu çalışmanın ortaya çıkmasında emeği geçen herkese şükranlarımı sunmadan hemen
önce, dilbilimde yüksek lisans yapma isteğim için beni yüreklendiren, güvenen ve desteğini …

Evidentials specify information sources [1]. Turkish marks two obligatory evidential forms
affixed to verbs when referring to the past: the direct evidential (-DI) is used when the event …