Demet Kayabasi

I'm a sixth year P.hD. candidite, and my research interests include (morpho)syntax, syntax-semantics interface, as well as gesture and multi-modal commuication.

I completed both my BA and MA in Linguistics in Turkey, at Dokuz Eylül University, and Boğaziçi University respectively. My research there focused on syntax-semantics interface phenomena such as NPI licensing in Turkish during my BA, and argument structure alternations in Turkish Sign Language (TİD) as well as age of acquisition effects on such structures during my MA. During my time at U of M, I have worked on reflexives in Turkish Sign Language (TİD), and emphatic anaphora in Turkish. Currently, I am working on comparing whether and/or how the encoding of noun and verb categories emerge across the gesture-language continuum as my dissertation project.