As my dissertation project, I'm interested in how modal notions are expressed and the role of nonmanual markers in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). There is an interesting labor division in some sign languages: Epistemic is realized via only nonmanuals while other modal notions are realized via manual signs in, for example, German Sign Language (DGS) or Dutch Sign Language (NGT). In other sign languages, both manual signs and nonmanuals are observed for all modal notions. I'm interested in the second category and how the semantic or pragmatic load of modal notions are distributed to manual and nonmanual markers. Some of initial findings are listed below, and stay tuned for the rest.
Dissertation:
- Karabüklü, S. (2022) Modal Signs and Cooccurring Nonmanual Markers in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). Purdue University, PhD Dissertation. https://doi.org/10.25394/PGS.21325785.v1
- Karabüklü, S., Wilbur, R. B. (2020) Seeing Possible Worlds. In Eren, Ö., Giannoula, A., Gray, S., Lam, C., Martinez Del Rio, A., (Eds). Proceedings of Chicago Linguistic Society 55th Meeting, 189-204 (with Ronnie B. Wilbur)
- Karabüklü, S., Bross, F., Wilbur, R. B., Hole, D. (2018) Modal Signs and Scope Relations in TİD, In Kimmelman, V., Koulidobrova, H. (Eds). Proceedings of Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST), 2: 82-92
- Karabüklü, S. & Wilbur, R. B. (2024) Novel marking of signer commitment in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). 2024 Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS 2024) Clause-type Marking in the Visual Domain. Ruhr Universitat Bochum. Feb 28-Mar 1. [abstract][slides]
- Karabüklü, S. (2024) Simultaneity and Certainty in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). 2024 Annual Conference of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA 2024). New York. Jan 4-7.
- Karabüklü, S. (2023) Strategies to convey signer certainty in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)? XPRAG X. The 10th Bienneal Meeting of Experimental Pragmatics. Paris. Sep 20-22, [poster].
- Karabüklü, S. (2023) Where do nonmanuals live? Experimental study on signer certainty in Turkish Sign Language (TİD), Sinn und Bedeutung 28. Special Session on Semantics and Pragmatics of Co-Speech/Co-Sign Communication. Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Sep 5-8 [poster].
- Karabüklü, S. (2023) Evidential Restriction on Epistemic Signs: Experimental Study in Turkish Sign Language (TİD), the Workshop on Modality in Underdescribed Languages (WMUL), Humboldt University, Berlin, Apr 20-22. [abstract] [slides]
- Karabüklü, S. (2023) LAZIM in TİD: Lexical Borrowing Comes with Structure. Coexistence, Competition, and Change, the 45th Annual Meeting of German Linguistics Society (DGfS 2023), Frankfurt University, Mar 8-10. [abstract]
- Kentner, A., Karabüklü, S., Wilbur, R. B. (2022) Articulatory Model for Annotating Non-manual Markers in Sign Languages, the Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC., Jan 6-9, [poster]
- Karabüklü, S., Wilbur, R.B. (2019) Is the mouth marking evidential in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)? Expressing Evidence Workshop, Konstanz, Germany, Jun 6-8
- Karabüklü, S., Wilbur, R.B. (2019) Seeing Possible Worlds. Chicago Linguistics Society 55th Meeting, Chicago, USA, May 16-18
- Karabüklü, S., Wilbur, R.B. (2018) Cinque’s Hierarchy and Its Mapping in Sign Languages. Sign Language Grammars Through the Formal and Experimental Glass, Crete, Greece, Jul 25, [poster]
- Karabüklü, S., Bross, F., Wilbur, R.B., Hole D. (2018) Modal signs and scope relations in TİD. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theories, Venice, Italy, Jun 18-21, [poster]
- Karabüklü, S., Wilbur, R.B. (2018) Scope taking in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). Purdue Linguistic, Literature and Second Language Studies Conference, West Lafayette, IN, Mar 2-4
- Crabtree, M. R., Karabüklü, S., Wilbur, R.B. (2018) Looking for Sign Language Universals in JSL Modals. The 7th Meeting of Signed and Spoken Language Linguistics, Osaka, Japan, Sep 28-30