Birsel Karakoç
List of John Benjamins publications for which Birsel Karakoç plays a role.
2023 Chapter 6. Connectivity of wh in bilingual Turkish: Developing a corpus-pragmatic filtering method Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective, Barotto, Alessandra and Simone Mattiola (eds.), pp. 135–165 | Chapter
This study tests a hypothesis regarding the connectivity of wh-constructions in spoken discourse data of Turkish-German bilingual children (the ENDFAS/SKOBI corpus), focusing on constructions involving one verbum dicendi: söyle‑ ‘say, tell, verbalise, utter’. It develops a corpus-pragmatic… read more
2020 Chapter 8. Subordination in children acquiring Turkish as a heritage language in Sweden Studies in Turkish as a Heritage Language, Bayram, Fatih (ed.), pp. 155–204 | Chapter
This paper investigates Turkish subordinate constructions in 201 fictional narratives told by 102 bilingual Turkish-Swedish children (age 4 to 7), growing up in Sweden with Turkish as a heritage language. All narratives were elicited with the picture sequences of the Multilingual Assessment… read more
2019 Predicative possession in Oghuz and Kipchak Turkic languages Possession in Languages of Europe and North and Central Asia, Johanson, Lars, Lidia Federica Mazzitelli and Irina Nevskaya (eds.), pp. 125–148 | Chapter
This article studies syntactic, semantic and discursive properties of non-subordinate (main) clauses conveying possession in Oghuz and Kipchak Turkic languages. In Turkic, the concept of possession is typically encoded by clauses based on existential predicates. The language-specific and… read more
2014 Non-past copular markers in Turkish On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia, Suihkonen, Pirkko and Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.), pp. 221–250 | Article
The present paper aims to investigate non-past copular markers in modern Standard Turkish from a comparative point of view. The following markers are analysed by taking into account their semantic, discursive and clausal properties as a whole: (1) the simple subject markers of pronominal type,… read more
2007 Connectivity by means of finite elements in monolingual and bilingual Turkish discourse Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse, Rehbein, Jochen, Christiane Hohenstein and Lukas Pietsch (eds.), pp. 199–227 | Article
The topic of this article concerns the acquisition of the connective role of finite elements in Turkish by monolingual Turkish children and Turkish children growing up as bilinguals in Germany. First, the structural and typological properties of the Turkish finite verbal forms and their connective… read more
2003 Interrogative elements as subordinators in Turkish: Aspects of Turkish-German bilingual children’s language use (In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism, Müller, Natascha (ed.), pp. 221–269 | Article
This study has been conducted within the larger context of the project SKOBI and its research questions concerning the acquisition and development of linguistic connectivity in Turkish and German in bilingual children. The phenomenon analyzed is approached from the perspective of language typology,… read more