College:
Pembroke College
Supervisor:
Assoc Prof John J. Lowe & Dr Ömer Faruk Demirok
Thesis Title:
Causativization: Morphosyntax and Semantics
Educational Background:
Dissertation title: An LFG Approach to Differential Object Marking in Uyghur (Turkic, Northwestern China)
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MSc Turkish Literature, Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi
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BA Turkish Language and Literature, Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi
Biography:
Seda is a DPhil student in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, working on morphosyntax and semantics of causativization, with a focus on syntactic theory, especially constraint-based non-transformational frameworks, like Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), and Turkic languages, such as Azerbaijani (Turkic, South Caucasus). She combines qualitative analysis with quantitative methods and maintains active interests in fieldwork and data-collection methodology. She has presented her work at national and international conferences. Alongside her thesis, she served as a Graduate Training Assistant in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (2023–24) and as a Research Assistant on the Oxford Phonetics Lab’s Mapping Cypriot project (2022–23). She has held leadership (President, Pembroke MCR, 2023–24), editorial (Humanities Editor, Pembroke Academic Journal, 2022–23), and organisational roles (Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, LingO 2024). She is a Master’s Scholar of Pembroke College.
Research areas:
Linguistics; theoretical syntax, morphosyntax, semantics; Lexical Functional Grammar; Turkic languages
Publications and Conference Papers:
Peer-reviewed publication
• Öztürk, S. (2023). Is instrumental causee possible in Azerbaijani? Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic, 8, 201–210.
Conference presentations
• Öztürk, S. (3–5 September 2025). Optional causee in the argument structure. Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB), University of Suffolk, Ipswich, UK.
• Öztürk, S. (3–5 June 2024). Argument structure of double causativization. Postgraduate Conference in English Language and Linguistics (PGCELL), University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
• Öztürk, S. (8–10 December 2023). Availability of instrumental causee in Azerbaijani. Workshop of Current Issues in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics; 47th Austrian Linguistics Conference, University of Graz, Austria.
• Öztürk, S. (September 2023). Is instrumental causee available in Azerbaijani? Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics (LingO 2023), Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK.
Relevant links:
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5124-6102
Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Seda-Oeztuerk-4
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/seda-%C3%B6zt%C3%BCrk/
