Deniz Tat
University Lecturer Turkish
- Name
- Dr. D. Tat
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 7100
- d.tat@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-8199-1974
Deniz Tat is a Assistant professor at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.
Fields of interest
Syntactic theory, morphology, Turkish linguistics, teaching of Turkish as a second language
Education
PhD in Linguistics with a major in Syntactic Theory and a minor in Cognitive Science, 2013, The University of Arizona
Employment
Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Turkish Studies
Key publications
- Key, G. & Tat, D. 2015. Structural variation in Turkish complex predicates. In Zeyrek, D. Sağın-Şimşek, Ç., Ataş, U. and Rehbein, J. (eds), Ankara Papers in Turkish and Turkic Linguistics (Turcologica 104), pp. 121-131. Wiesbaden: Harrossowitz Verlag.
- Tat, D. 2013. Word syntax of nominal compounds: internal and aphasiological evidence from Turkish, PhD dissertation, The University of Arizona.
- Tat, 2011. APs as reduced relatives: the case of ‘bir’ in (some) varieties of Turkic. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 62, pp. 301-315.
Teaching
- Turkish as a foreign and heritage language
- Media Turkish
- Academic Turkish
Grants and awards
- Graduate College Fellowship, The University of Arizona (2010, 2013)
- Arizona Board of Regents Dissertation Grant, Graduate College, The University of Arizona (2012)
- Raphael and Jolene Research Travel Grant, Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs, The University of Arizona (2012)
- Dr. Malakeh Taleghani Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Iranian Studies, The University of Arizona (2011)
- Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Fellowship, The University of Arizona (2006-2007)
- Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assitant Award, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Arizona (2009)
University Lecturer Turkish
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SMES APT
- Rothman J., Bayram F., DeLuca V., Pisa G. di, Duñabeitia J.A., Gharibi K., Hao J., Kolb N., Kubota M., Kupisch T., Laméris T.J., Luque A., Osch B.A. van, Pereira Soares S.M., Prystauka Y., Tat D., Tomić A., Voits T. & Wulff S. (2023), Monolingual comparative normativity in bilingualism research is out of “control”: arguments and alternatives, Applied Psycholinguistics 44(3): 316-329.
- Tat D. (2022), Lexical borrowing targets spans, Languages 7(4): 289.
- Tat D. & Kornfilt J. (2022), Partial versus full agreement in Turkish possessive and clausal DP-Coordination. In: Giusti G., Di Caro V.N. & Ross D. (Eds.), Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions. Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today no. 274: John Benjamins. 271-286.
- Osch B.A. van, Boers I.H.G., Grijzenhout J., Parafita Couto M., Sterken B.D. & Tat D. (2022), Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual grammars: Evidence from gender assignment in unilingual Dutch and mixed speech. In: Ayoun D. (Ed.), The Acquisition of Gender: Crosslinguistic Perspectives. Studies in Bilingualism no. 63: John Benjamins. 209-242.
- Boers I.H.G., Sterken B.D., Osch B.A. van, Parafita Couto M.C., Grijzenhout J. & Tat D. (2020), Gender in unilingual and mixed speech of Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands, Languages 5(4): 68.
- Tat D. & Kornfilt J. (2018), Haplology within M-Words and P-Words: Revisiting the Stuttering Prohibition in Turkish, Indiana University Linguistics Club Working Papers 18(2): 1-28.
- Key G. & Tat D. (2015), Structural Variation in Turkish Complex Predicates. Zeyrek D., Sağın-Şimşek Ç., Ataş U. & Rehbein J. (Eds.), Ankara Papers in Turkish and Turkic Linguistics. . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. 121-131.
- Tat D. (11 January 2013), Word Syntax of Nominal Compounds: Internal and Aphasiological Evidence from Turkish (Dissertatie, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona). Supervisor(s): Karimi S. & Harley H.
- Choi J., Hogue E.A., Punske J., Tat D., Schertz J. & Trueman A. (Eds.) (2012), Proceedings of the 29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.
- Tat D. (2011), APs as reduced relatives: the case of bir in some varieties of Turkic. Simpson A. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL7). the 7th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL) no. 62: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
- Tat D. & Key G. (2009), Turkish Unaccusatives and Causative Morphology. Ay S., Aydın Ö., Ergenç İ., Gökmen S., İşsever S. & Peçenek D. (Eds.), Essays on Turkish Linguistics. . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.. 73-82.