Gulsat Aygen

Gülşat Aygen is a linguist, educator, author, editor, and translator born in Turkey. Agyen's research agenda includes both theoretical and applied linguistics, encompassing morphosyntax, language education, and many Turkic languages, particularly Turkish, her native language.[1][2][3][4][5] She is currently a Distinguished Teaching Professor[6] of linguistics at Northern Illinois University.

She has been interviewed on many topics in linguistics, including the language of social media,[7][8] the significance and benefits of heritage languages such as Kurdish, lexical properties of certain words in the political discourse, and language acquisition.

Aygen's wider intellectual interests have led her to translate dozens of articles, a book, and edit many translated books from English to Turkish,[9][10][11][12] transcribe and edit old Ottoman manuscripts. The 8th edition of her translation of Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power was published in 1998.[13]

Research Agenda

In theoretical linguistics, she has worked extensively on the nature of finiteness, case, and agreement regarding clausal architecture in the world's languages, as well as the structure of reduced relative clauses and embedded clauses, specificity, scrambling, the copula.[14][15]

In applied linguistics and language education, she cultivated an approach to English grammar, a descriptive linguistics approach not only to assist language learners of all levels to develop and refine their English language use, but also to help those language users understand the deeper structures behind the language, empowering them to not depend on simple memorization. In her book English Grammar: a descriptive linguistics approach, she bridges the so-called contradiction between descriptive and prescriptive grammar by developing a new framework with which prescriptive grammar can be re-analyzed using the linguistic tools of descriptive linguistics. This approach has been adopted to teach English grammar to native speakers or non-native speakers of English. The same approach has been adopted to teaching different aspects of English, such as writing.[16] In Word Choice Errors: A descriptive linguistics approach, this descriptive linguistics approach is applied by enabling language learners to understand their choice of words at a true descriptive linguistics level.

In languages other than English, Aygen also worked and published on teaching Turkish as a second language,[17] English as a second language, and gave talks on teaching Kurdish as a second language. She has also authored reference grammars of Kurmanji Kurdish and Kirmancki/Zazaki Kurdish.[18][19]

In sociolinguistics, she has worked on the languages of the Grand Bazaar[20] and in media studies on syntax of the TV series Frasier.[21]

She has also co-authored work on morphosyntax of agrammatic aphasia,[22][23][24] neurology, and history of neuroscience.

Education

Aygen received her Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University, after completing her graduate studies at Harvard and MIT (1998–2002). Her formal advisors were primarily Jim C-T Huang of Harvard and Shigeru Miyagawa of MIT, Noam Chomsky was her informal advisor[25]

American Academy for Girls, Istanbul, Turkey (1970–1977)

Cerrahpasa Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey (1977–1981)

Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey (BA,1996/MA, 1998)

Harvard University (PhD, 2002)

References
  1. "MITWPL catalog". mitwpl.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
  2. "Gulsat Aygen | Northern Illinois University - Academia.edu". niu.academia.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
  3. "Are there "Non-Restrictive" Prerelatives in Turkish". www.academia.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
  4. Aygen, Gulsat. "REDUCED OBJECT RELATIVES AND THE LOCATION OF AGREEMENT". California Linguistic Notes XXXII. 1-39.
  5. Aygen, Gulsat. "California Linguistic Notes Volume XXXVI No. 1 Spring 2011". Reduced Relatives and the Location of Agreement. California Linguistic Notes 36:1. 1-30.
  6. "Presidential Teaching Professors - NIU - Office of the President". Northern Illinois University. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
  7. BENİM ADIM HIDIR - SOSYAL MEDYANIN DİLİ, retrieved 2019-08-01
  8. "ÇANAK ANTEN". canakanten.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
  9. Aygen, Gulsat (2013). Chomsky on Anarchism/Anarşizm Üzerine. Noam Chomsky. Istanbul: Agora Publishing.
  10. Aygen, Gulsat (2010). Camera Politic: the politics and ideology of contemporary Hollywood Film/Politik Kamera: Çağdaş Hollywood Sinemasının Ideolojisi ve Politikası (2nd ed.) Michael Ryan. Istanbul: Ayrıntı Publications.
  11. Aygen, Gulsat (1997). Crash/Çarpışma. James Graham Ballard. Istanbul: Ayrıntı Publications Literature Series.
  12. Aygen, Gulsat (1996). Popular Cultures Rock Music, Sport and the Politics of Pleasure/ Popüler Kültürler Rock ve Sporda Haz Politikaları. David Rowe. Ayrıntı Publications.
  13. Kitle ve İktidar (in Turkish).
  14. Aygen, Gulsat; Aydın, Özgür. "Copular Structres as (non)phases". Ankara Papers in Turkish and Turkic Linguistics, Turcologica 113.
  15. Aygen, Gulsat. "Aygen-The Copula". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  16. "Word Choice Errors: A Descriptive Linguistics Approach, 1st Edition (Paperback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
  17. Aygen, Gulsat. "Aygen. Some linguistics issues in Turkish textbooks". Dil Ve Edebiyat Dergisi/Journal of Language and Literature, 9:1.
  18. Aygen, Gulsat (2010). Zazaki/Kirmancki Kurdish. Languages of the World/Materials 479. München: Lincom Europa.
  19. Aygen, Gulsat (2007). Kurmanjî Kurdish. Languages of the World/Materials 468. München.
  20. "Languages of Kapalıçarşı/ the Grand Bazaar". www.academia.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
  21. "2016. "Syntax in Seattle" in Watching TV with a Linguist". www.academia.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
  22. Bastiaanse, R.; Aygen, G.; Yarbayduman, T. (2008). "The production of Turkish relative clauses in agrammatism: Verb inflection and constituent order". Brain and Language. 105 (3): 149–160. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2007.11.001. ISSN 0093-934X. PMID 18076978. S2CID 32157024.
  23. Duman, Tuba Yarbay; Aygen, Gulsat. "Object scrambling and finiteness in Turkish agrammatic production". Brain and Language.
  24. Aygen, Gulsat. "Object scrambling and finiteness in Turkish agrammatic production". Journal of Neurolinguistics.
  25. "From tortured prisoner to Harvard graduate". National Catholic Reporter. 2015-03-24. Retrieved 2019-08-01.

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