Utku at TU+ and CLS
April 03, 2026
Agreement attraction is sensitive to abstract subjecthood and suspended affixation is sensitive to frequency.
April is busy for Utku Turk! April 11-12 he is at MIT for the 11th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic, known as TU+, as a co-author on two presentations with collaborators at UMass Amherst, including alumnus Brian Dillon *11 and his students. Then April 16-17 he is in Chicago for CLS, to deliver the latter of these two presentations to a broader audience.
- Eva Neu, Utku Türk, Özge Bakay, Brian Dillon, Gaja Jarosz / The syntax-morphology divide is gradient and sensitive to frequency: Evidence from suspended affixation
- Özge Bakay, Utku Türk, Duygu Demiray and Brian Dillon / Evidence for the role of abstract subjecthood in Turkish agreement comprehension