MERIÇLI RETURNS TO INDIANA

Ben Meriçli returned to Indiana last week to speak at the 2nd Workshop on Turkish, Turkic, and the Languages of Turkey. He reports as follows:

I gave a talk based on bits of my MA thesis, entitled “Indirect Evidence in Denotation and Discourse: At Best Second-Best.” It was a top-notch time, with engaging speakers and interesting work. It was also wonderful to catch up with good friends who’d come all the way from Istanbul’s Boğaziçi University, where I spent much of my summer.

With so much data on puzzling syntactic topics in Turkish, the conference was perhaps most valuable to me for pointing out all the ways my own non-native grammar misses the mark. Who knew the subject of an objectless object relative clause in the locative is nominative, not genitive?!

(If you click through the link, you’ll note that Ben was supposed to have seen a talk by our own Jorge Hankamer, and invited speaker of the conference, but Jorge had to cancel last minute.)