Rüveyda Şahyar

ɹyʋejˈdaː ˈʃaxjar̥

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Hi! I am a PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Göttingen, where I work on polarity items as part of Pillar II of the ERC project UNPAG. My research areas are semantics, pragmatics and syntax.

I received my master's and bachelor's degrees in Linguistics at Boğaziçi University. For my master's thesis, I worked on the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Turkish alternative questions under the advisory of Dr. Elena Guerzoni.

For reasons unknown to me, my thesis is not available on the YÖKTEZ database. Please e-mail me for a copy!

Research

Turkish Alternative Questions

Semantics and Pragmatics of Turkish Alternative Questions

April 2026
Poster at POQAL Workshop 3, University of Göttingen

October 2025
Talk at SoFar talk series, Boğaziçi University

Syntactic considerations on Turkish Alternative Questions

September 2025
Talk at SinFonIJA 18, Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje

Semantics of the disjunction in Turkish Alternative Questions

December 2024
Talk at the 9th Asian Junior Linguists Conference, International Christian University, Tokyo

Universal Paradigmatic Gaps: Polarity

Universal Quantifier PPIs

March 2026
Poster at UNPAG Kickoff Workshop, University of Göttingen

Eye-tracking

Predictive processes in sight translation: evidence from reading comprehension during English-Turkish and English-Dutch sight translation

September 2024 | Jointly presented with Ena Hodzik
Talk at Interpreting: Cognition and Technology Symposium, Boğaziçi University

August 2024
Poster at DGfS Summer School, University of Göttingen

Learning/Tolerance Principle

Modeling Morphological Learning: Tolerance Principle on Turkish past tense -DI

May 2024
Talk at Student Conference on Linguistics (SCOL), Boğaziçi University
Talk video

March 2024
Poster at Konstanz Linguistics Conference, University of Konstanz

Japanese phrasal compounds

Beyond clichés: on the acceptability of modifier stranding in Japanese phrasal compounds

August 2023
Poster at 5th Crete Summer School of Linguistics, University of Crete

日本語における句の包摂について ― 容認性条件としての cliché 説に対する反論

July 2021
Presentation at 日研生プログラム最終発表会 (Nikkensei Program Presentation Session), Osaka University
Presentation video

Teaching

HS Syntax: Universal Paradigmatic Gaps | Co-instructor

SoSe 2026 | Course co-taught with fellow UNPAG project members
Seminar für Englische Philologie, University of Göttingen

LING48T: Neurolinguistics | Teaching Assistant

Summer 2024 | Instructor: Dr. Seçkin Arslan
Department of Linguistics, Boğaziçi University

S25: Lower Advanced Turkish | Teaching Assistant

Summer 2022
Turkish Language and Culture Program, Boğaziçi University