Upcoming

2023. Jointly with Ömer Demirok. Getting even without “even” in Turkish. Upcoming paper in Proceedings of The 53rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 53).

2023. Jointly with Ankana Saha and Kate Davidson. Focus on demonstratives: Experiments in English and Turkish. Upcoming poster at The 33rd Meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 33), Yale University , May, 12-14.

2023. Cardinality and (In)definiteness. Upcoming poster at The Workshop on (In)definiteness across Languages, Yale University, May, 11.

2023. Jointly with Ömer Demirok and Muhammet Bal. Subject pseudo-incorporation in Laz.. Upcoming poster at The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 41 (WCCFL 41), the University of California, Santa Cruz, May, 5-7.

2023. Topic TBD. Invited talk at UMass Amherst Colloquium Series, April, 7.

Ongoing Projects

EXPERIMENTAL

2022. Jointly with Ankana Saha and Kate Davidson. Focus on demonstratives: Experiments in English, Turkish, Bangla, and Mandarin.

2022. Number Interpretation in the Non-Case-Marked Object Position in Turkish: Indefinite or Pseudo-incorporation?

FIELDWORK

2022. Jointly with Ömer Demirok and Muhammet Bal.
The Interaction of Argument Structure, Case, Agreement, and Bare Noun Semantics in Laz [The Pazar (Atina) and Çamlıhemşin (Vica) dialects]

Publications

JOURNAL SUBMISSIONS

2022. On the (non-)optionality of the Turkish classifier tane. Under review in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

JOURNAL PAPERS

2023. Ömer Demirok and Yağmur Sağ. Are there aspectless tensed clauses in Turkish? Languages 8(1), 60 [invited contribution to Special Issue “Theoretical Studies on Turkic Languages”]

2022. Bare Singulars and Singularity in Turkish. Linguistics and Philosophy 45. pp. 741-793 [published online in 2021]

2020. Agata Renans, Yağmur Sağ, Nihan Ketrez, Lyn Tieu, George Tsoulas, Raffaella Folli, Hanna de Vries, and Jacopo Romoli. Plurality and Cross-linguistic Variation: An Experimental Investigation of the Turkish Plural. Natural Language Semantics 28. pp.307-342.

REVIEW PAPERS

2020. Veneeta Dayal and Yağmur Sağ. Determiners and Bare Nouns. Annual Review of Linguistics. Volume 6. 173-94. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011718-011958

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

2020. The Curious Case of Measure Semantics. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 55).

2018. The Semantics of Turkish Numeral Constructions. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22 (SuB 22), ZAS.

2018. Person agreement in the Denizli Dialect of Turkish. Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 10). MITWPL.

2017. Verbal Head Incorporation in Turkish. Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 12). MITWPL.

2017. Complex Predication via Phrasal Adjunction to a Head Category. Proceedings of the 34th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 34). Casscadilla Proceedings Project. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/34/abstract3349.html

2015. The spell-out of combined predicate structures in Turkish: a nano-syntactic analysis. Ankara Papers in Turkish and Turkic Linguistics. TURKOLOGICA:103. Harrassowitz Verlag. Wiesbaden. 202-215.

2013. Denizli ağzında tümcesel tümleçlerin yapısı: Ölçünlü Türkçe ile karşılaştırmalı bir çalışma. [The structure of sentential complements in the Denizli dialect: A comparison with Standard Turkish] Proceedings of the 26th Dilbilim Kurultayı (All-Turkey Linguistics Conference), Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi.

2013. Copula in Turkish. Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 8), MITWPL 67.

EDITED VOLUMES

2019. Paloma Jeretič and Yağmur Sağ (eds). Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic: Vol. 4. Linguistic Society of America.

OTHER OUTPUT

2016. On the Semantics of Classifiers: A New Perspective from an Optional Classifier Language, Turkish. Ms. Rutgers University. [Qualifying Paper]

2015. Complex Predicate Formation via Adjunction to a Head Category: Evidence from Light Verb Constructions in Turkish. Ms. Rutgers University. [Qualifying Paper]

2013. The Verbal Functional Domain in the Denizli Dialect of Turkish. MA Thesis. Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.

Talks & Posters

TALKS

2023. Jointly with Ömer Demirok and Muhammet Bal. Subject pseudo-incorporation in Laz. Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+8), Harvard University , March, 4-5.

2023. Jointly with Ömer Demirok. Getting even without “even” in Turkish. The 53rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 53), University of Göttingen, January, 12-14.

2022. Cardinality and (In)definiteness. Invited talk at Language & Cognition Meeting at Harvard, October, 25.

2022. Fieldwork notes on Laz. Fieldwork Symposium at BU/MIT/Harvard, October, 21.

2021. Bare singulars and singularity in Turkish. Invited talk at The Harvard Linguistics Circle Workshop, October, 29.

2021. On the (Non-)optionality of the Turkish Classifier tane. The 6th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Tu+ 6), University of Toronto, February, 19-20.

2019. The Curious Case of Measure Semantics. The 55th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 55), The University of Chicago, May, 16-18.

2017. The Semantics of Numeral Constructions in Turkish. Sinn und Bedeutung 22 (SuB 22), ZAS, September, 7-10.

2017. The Semantics of Numeral Constructions in Turkish. RULing XII, Rutgers University, May, 5.

2017. Turkish an Optional Classifier Language with Plurals. The 41st Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 41), UPenn, March, 24-26.

2016. Turkish an Optional Classifier Language with Plurals. MACSIM 6, CUNY, October 1.

2016. The Semantics of Number in Turkish. RULing XI, Rutgers University, April 2.

2015. Complex Predicate Formation via Adjunction to a Head Category: Evidence from Light Verb Constructions in Turkish. Turkish, Turkic and the Languages of Turkey (Tu+1), UMass, Amherst. November 21-22.

2015. Light Verb Constructions in Turkish. RULing X, Rutgers University, May 2.

2014. Person Agreement in the Denizli Dialect of Turkish. RULing IX, Rutgers University, April 11-12.

2012. The Copula and the Embedded Structure in Denizli Dialect of Turkish: A Nano-syntactic Analysis. The 16th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL 16), Middle East Technical University, September 18-21.

2012. Koşacın Denizli Ağzındaki Yeri ve İşlevi [The position and function of the copula in the Denizli Dialect]. 26. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı (the 26th All-Turkey Linguistics Conference), Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi, May 24-26.

2012. The Nominalized Complements in Two Dialects of Turkish: Evidence from the copula. Boğaziçi Linguistic Circle- BLC, Boğaziçi University, May 9.

POSTERS

2019. The Curious Case of Measure Semantics. MACSIM 8, NYU, April, 6.

2019. On the (Non-)optionality of the Turkish classifier. Workshop on Identifying (In)definiteness, Yale University, March, 29-30 [invited].

2018. Pseudo-incorporation as Sub-event Kind Formation. The 14th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 14), Massachusetts Institute Technology, October 19-21.

2016. Verbal Head Incorporation in Turkish. The 12th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 12), Central Connecticut State University, May 12-15.

2016. Complex Predication via Phrasal Adjunction to a Head Category. The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 34 (WCCFL 34), The University of Utah, April 29 – May 1.

2016. Pseudo-Verb Incorporation via Phrasal Adjunction to V0. The 40th Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 40), UPenn, March 18-20.

2014. Person agreement in the Denizli dialect of Turkish. The 10th Workshop on Altaic Formal Languages (WAFL 10), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2-4. [Winner of the Best Poster Award]

2012. The Nominalized Complements in Two Dialects of Turkish: Evidence from the copula. The 8th Workshop on Formal Altaic Linguistics (WAFL 8), Stuttgart University, May 18-20.