Department Newsletter: March – April 2026
Publications
| Oztabak-Avci, E. (2026). Ressentiment or resentment: Politics of anger and immigration in the twenty-first century British novel. In A. Özüm (Ed.), Complexities of anger: Literary and cultural perspectives (pp. 11–24). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765132289.ch-1 |
| Sarısoy, D., Evcen E. & Hartshorne, J. K. (2026). Pronoun resolution in Turkish: The interplay of referential form, word order and implicit causality. Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70235 |
| Us, E. & Sarısoy, D. (accepted). Morphological access to alternatives fails to boost scalar implicatures: Interpretation of disjunction in Turkish-speaking children. Language Acquisition. |
Faculty News
| Faculty Member | News Item | Details | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hülya Yıldız | Invited Speaker | 2026 Nobel Symposium in Literature: Literary consecration and the transformation of publishing in the era of globalization. Stockholm, Sweden. Funded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. | May 21-24, 2026. |
| Deniz Şallı-Çopur | Invited Speaker | 2026 Metu Elt Convention, Ankara, Turkiye | May 8-9, 2026 |
| Fahime Serhatti | Conference presentation | “Social Ecology of Resilience in Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen and In the Ditch.” CONGIST’26: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis, Istanbul, Turkey | May 13-15, 2026 |
| Fahime Serhatti | Conference presentation | “Inhabiting the Unmasterable Now: The Narrative-Epistemological Paradox in Samantha Harvey’s The Wilderness.” Illness Narrative Retold – Diversity, Temporality, and Digitization, Aarhus University, Denmark | June 1-2 , 2026 |
| Fahime Serhatti | Conference presentation (Panellist) | “Alternative Assignments and Grading Schemes to Strengthen Student Engagement and Combat AI (The Narrative Pedagogy Project Session).” The 41st Narrative Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative, Aarhus University, Denmark | June 4-6, 2026 |
| Fahime Serhatti | Conference presentation (Panellist) | “Mapping the Temporalities of Grief: Rethinking Mourning in Max Porter’s Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.” The 41st Narrative Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative, Aarhus University, Denmark | June 4-6, 2026 |
| Martina Gracanin Yüksek | Workshop presentation | Cross-conjunct modification in -ile/-lA coordination. Üretici Dil Bilgisi ve Türkçe Calıştayı, Türk Dil Kurumu, Ankara. | June 18-19, 2026 |
| Enes Us & Duygu Sarısoy | Conference presentation | When OR Wears AND on Its Sleeve: Morphological Transparency and Interpretation of Disjunction in Turkish-Speaking Children. 12th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science, TED Üniversitesi, Ankara. | May 3, 2026 |
| Berfin Karabulut & Duygu Sarısoy | Conference presentation | Literal Interpretation or Creative Exploration? The Interplay of Creativity and Domain in Preschoolers’ Metaphor Processing. 12th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science, TED Üniversitesi, Ankara. | May 3, 2026 |
| Galiya Saraç, Duygu Sarısoy, Deniz Özkan | Conference Presentation | ‘The rabbit loves the turtle because he…’: Implicit causality biases in Turkish speaking young children | May 3, 2026 |
| Hilal Yıldırım | Conference Presentation | Endpoint-first Aspectual Classification in Turkish: Evidence from Cross-modal Semantic Classification | May 3, 2026 |
| Ayşe Gül Özay Demircioğlu, Duygu Sarısoy | Conference Presentation | Exploring presupposition processing in Turkish children: A developmental perspective [Poster presentation]. 12th International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science (ISBCS 2026), TED University, Ankara, Türkiye. | May 3, 2026 |
Projects
| Project Coordinator | Project Title | Start - Completion Date | Funding Body/Programme |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duygu Sarısoy | Türkçe Konuşan Okul Öncesi Çocuklarda Olasılık ve Zorunluluk Bildiren Bilgisellik Kipliklerinin İşlenmesi | May 2025 - May 2029 | TÜBİTAK 1001 |
Last updated