Kutay Serova
Pronouns: He/Him/His Areas of Study: Department of Linguistics Website: https://kutayserova.com/ Office: 205G Contact: Email Interests:
Syntax, Morphology, Syntax Interfaces, Turkic, Austronesian, Cross-linguistic Variation, Software Tools for Linguistics
I am a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and the Division of the Arts and Humanities. I received my PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 2026.
My research investigates how syntactic mechanisms and their interfaces with morphophonological and semantic systems of grammar inform cross-linguistic variation. My dissertation, Right Edge Sharing: Finding Structural Constraints in the Post-Syntax, studies the mechanisms that share words and morphemes at the right edge of coordinate and non-coordinate structures, and finds that the relevant post-syntactic processes must have access to syntactic constituency. The dissertation can be accessed here. Recently, I have also been working on historical syntax and morphology in Turkic (Chaghatay), tense and aspect in Austronesian (Eastern Javanese and Hawaiian), and software tools for linguistic documentation and analysis (LingCoT).