Ateş Çalışır

RTG PhD student, member since 2024

Project "Question-Conditional Link in Natural Languages"

My research explores the syntactic and semantic relationship between conditionals and questions across natural languages. A key focus is the recurring presence of the same morphological element, such as if in English, in both embedded questions and conditionals. This polysemy is not limited to English; it is observed in numerous typologically diverse languages. The aim of this cross-linguistic study is to investigate whether this overlap is merely coincidental or reflects a deeper, universal connection between the two structures

Background:

2016-2021: Boğaziçi University, B.A. in Linguistics

2019-2022: Anadolu University, B.A. in Philosophy

2022-2024: Goethe University Frankfurt, M.A. in Linguistics, Thesis: Biased Polar Questions in Turkish

Research interests:

Syntax-Semantics Interface

Formal Semantics

Polar questions and bias

(Verum) focus

Typology of conditionals, (polar) questions and disjunction