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.

Syntactic considerations on Turkish Alternative Questions

September 2025
Talk at SinFonIJA 18, Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje
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Semantics of the disjunction in Turkish Alternative Questions

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

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, Georg-August University Göttingen
Poster

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

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

March 2024
Poster at Konstanz Linguistics Conference, University of Konstanz
Poster

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
Poster

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
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