Background
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) – expected 2024
Linguistics at University of Cologne. Ongoing – expected in August 2024. PhD Dissertation: Recursive embedding in productive causatives: The view from Turkish (working title), supervised by Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger.
Master of Arts (MA) – 2021
English Linguistics at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Graduated in July 2021. MA Degree with 1.6/1 GPA. MA Thesis: The variation between NN constructions and genitive constructions in English: An empirical study, supervised by Prof. Dr. Ingo Plag.
Bachelor of Arts (BA) – 2018
Comparative Literature at Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Türkiye. Graduated in June 2018. BA Degree with 3.25/4 GPA. BA Thesis: On Marx’s theory of alienation: A comparative study of the literary works ‘The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick’ by Peter Handke and ‘Motherland Hotel’ by Yusuf Atılgan.
Talks
2023
von Heusinger, Klaus & Haydar Batuhan Yıldız. The discourse Function of Differential Object Marking in Turkish. Poster presentation (accepted but not presented) at 17th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 17). National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar. 27 – 29 September 2023.
von Heusinger, Klaus & Haydar Batuhan Yıldız. Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Turkish. Oral presentation at 21st International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. 2 – 4 August 2023.
Duarte, Tiago Augusto, Haydar Batuhan Yıldız, Marco García García & Klaus von Heusinger. Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish and Turkish. Oral presentation at 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference. University of Mannheim. 18 – 21 July 2023.
Yıldız, Haydar Batuhan. Morphological reduplication or syntactic recursion? Double causatives in Turkish. Oral presentation at Kolloquium Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Köln (LAK). University of Cologne. 29 November 2023.
2022
Yıldız, Haydar Batuhan & Klaus von Heusinger. The discourse function of DOM in Turkish: Evidence from two empirical studies. Oral presentation at 3rd Cologne Ankara Discourse Meeting (CADiM3). University of Cologne, SFB 1252 House of Prominence, 1 July 2022.
Yıldız, Haydar Batuhan & Ingo Plag. The teacher role or the teacher’s role? Determining the choice between noun-noun constructions and s-genitives. Oral presentation at 9th Biennial International Conference of the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. 15 – 17 September 2022.
Yıldız, Haydar Batuhan & Ingo Plag. The teacher role or the teacher’s role? Determining the choice between noun-noun constructions and s-genitives. Oral presentation at Linguistics Prague. Charles University Prague, Czech Republic. 30 September – 2 October 2022.
Yıldız, Haydar Batuhan. Who made who do what [for] whom? Causativization in Turkish. Oral presentation at a.r.t.e.s. Colloquium, Schloß Wahn, University of Cologne. 07 October 2022.
Yıldız, Haydar Batuhan & Ingo Plag. The teacher role or the teacher’s role? Determining the choice between noun-noun constructions and s-genitives. Oral presentation (online) at Nominal Group Research Group. Cardiff University, United Kingdom. 15 December 2022.
2020
Yıldız, Haydar Batuhan. Seeking syntactic complexity: A corpus-based genre analysis. Oral presentation at MA Students’ Conference ‘Made and Remade Continually‘. Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Haus der Universität, 28 January 2020.
Organization
3rd International Conference Prominence in Language 2022, hosted by SFB 1252 and CCLS at University of Cologne, organized by Sophie Repp, Jakob Egetenmeyer, Haydar Batuhan Yıldız, Maria Lialiou. 2 – 3 June 2022.
Teaching
2023
Eigennamen (Proper Names)
2 sessions on corpus study exercises.
Course by Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger in Summer Term 2023.
2022
Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft (Introduction to Linguistics)
1 session on morphology.
Course by Dr. Semra Kizilkaya in Summer Term 2022.
Activities
2023
Introduction to Bayesian statistical modelling with brms
Workshop given by Bodo Winter for the CRC 1252 ‘Prominence in Language’. Cologne, 9 – 13 October 2023.
LOT
Winter School on Linguistics. Amsterdam, 9 – 13 January 2023.
2022
CreteLing
Summer School on Linguistics. Crete, 16 – 29 July 2022
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