A. Sumru Özsoy

A. Sumru Özsoy
Citizenship Turkey
Nationality Turkish
Fields Syntax and morphology of Turkish, cognitive science
Institutions Boğaziçi University
Alma mater Robert College
Boğaziçi University
University of Michigan
Known for Structure of Turkish

A. Sumru Özsoy is a leading linguist and Turkish academic working at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.

Education

Özsoy received a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Robert College in 1971.[1] She obtained a master's degree in linguistics from Boğaziçi University in 1975 and a PhD in linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1983.[1] Title of her PhD thesis is "Kendi-reflexivization in Turkish: A syntactic, semantic and discourse analysis".[2][3]

Career

Özsoy started her career as an English instructor in 1972.[4] She was a teaching assistant at Michigan University from 1977 to 1983. Then she joined Boğaziçi University in 1983 and became professor of linguistics at the Department of Western Languages and Literatures in 1994.[4][5]

She represents the Turkish Linguistics Community at the Permanent International Committee of Linguists (CPIL).[6]

Work

Özsoy's fields of study are syntax, structure of Turkish, Caucasian languages, cognitive linguistics, sign languages and Turkish Sign Language.[1] She is one of the linguists who studied the now extinct language Ubykh focusing on its syntax.[7][8] She studied with Tevfik Esenç, the last fluent speaker of Ubykh, in his later years.[7] She organized an international conference, namely Conference on Northwest Caucasian Linguistics, at Boğaziçi University in 1994 in memory of Georges Dumézil, who analysed the language in detail, and Esenç.[7]

She is the author of several books,[9] including Türkçe-Turkish (1999) and Türkçe'nin Yapısı. Sesbilim (2004; Structure of Turkish. Phonology).[10][11] She has also published numerous articles in her fields of study.[4][12]

She was the coeditor of Dilbilim Araştırmaları from 1990 to 2011[13] and has been among the editors of Turkic Languages since 1997 which is published by the Harrassowitz publishing house.[4][14]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Prof. Dr. A. Sumru Özsoy". Boğaziçi University. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  2. ↑ A. Sumru Özsoy (1983). Kendi-reflexivization in Turkish: A syntactic, semantic and discourse analysis. Google Books. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "kendi / kendisi, and the Clause Structure of Turkish". BU Linguistics Program. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Sumru Ozsoy's homepage". Boğaziçi University. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  5. ↑ "Current Directions in Turkish Sign Language Research". CSP. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
  6. ↑ "General Assembly". The Permanent International Committee. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 E. F. K. Koerner (1 January 1998). First Person Singular III: Autobiographies by North American Scholars in the Language Sciences. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 33. ISBN 978-90-272-4576-2. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  8. ↑ Şule Arasan (27 February 1988). "Ubıhların son sesi". Nokta. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
  9. ↑ "Özsoy, A. Sumru". WorldCat Identities. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
  10. ↑ "Türkçe'nin Yapısı 1 Sesbilim". Idefix. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  11. ↑ "Turkce = Turkish". Amazon. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
  12. ↑ Yuji Kawaguchi; Makoto Minegishi; Jacques Durand (2009). Corpus Analysis and Variation in Linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 978-90-272-0768-5. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
  13. ↑ "Contents". Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi (in Turkish). Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  14. ↑ "Turkic Languages". Harrassowitz Verlag. Retrieved 3 November 2013.