Ömer Demirok
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ömer Demirok plays a role.
Articles
2024 The emergence of clausal nominalizations in Laz Linguistic Variation: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper presents a survey of complementation strategies that are employed in Pazar and Ardesheni dialects of Laz, an endangered South Caucasian language that has been in contact with Turkish for decades. Our survey reveals strong signatures of contact in that nominalization patterns not… read more
2022 Chapter 4. Agreeing complementizers may just be moody Discourse Particles: Syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and historical aspects, Artiagoitia, Xabier, Arantzazu Elordieta and Sergio Monforte (eds.), pp. 101–130 | Chapter
This study investigates two discourse-related particles, ya and şo, in Laz, an endangered South Caucasian language. We argue that both ya and şo are indexical shift complementizers which can occur without an overt embedding verb, suggesting root complementizer behavior. However, when they appear… read more