Kutay Serova
Pronouns: He/Him/His Areas of Study: Department of Linguistics Website: https://kutay-serova.github.io/ Office: 205G Contact: Email Interests:
Syntax, Morphology, Interfaces, Turkic Languages
Dissertation: Right Edge Sharing: Finding Structural Constraints in the Post-syntax
I am teaching fellow interested in syntactic mechanisms and their interfaces with morphological, phonological, and semantic systems, especially with regards to understanding cross-linguistic variation. I completed my B.A. in Linguistics at Stanford University in 2020. My dissertation work investigates shared-exponence phenomena such ellipsis, gapping, and suspended affixation in coordination and non-coordination structures, and how these structures are linearized into strings of words and morphemes. Some essential questions that this work aims to contribute to are the following:
What true syntactic mechanisms, and non-syntactic processes are involved in shared exponence? Empirically, are there linear right-left asymmetries inherent in shared exponence and linearization? What is the distribution of labor between Syntax and post-syntactic processes in combining, ordering, and spelling out morphophonological linguistic material?