Demet Kayabaşı

My main research interests are argument structure and syntax in signed and spoken languages. I am also interested in the age of acquisition effects on morphosyntactic complexity. I have previously worked on the causative-inchoative alternation, the age of acquisition effects on multi-predicative structures, and null arguments in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). I am currently interested in reflexives in TİD, and how the reflexive morpheme interacts with passivization in Turkish.

Contact: kayabasi [at] umich [dot] edu