Deniz Özyıldız

/deˈnız/ /ˈœzjɯldɯz/
/deˌnıˈzœzjɯldɯz/

About

I currently work at the Institute for Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart. Before this, I was a postdoc in the project MECORE at the University of Konstanz (2021–2024). And before that, I was working on my PhD at UMass Amherst (2021).

I specialize on the semantics and the syntax of attitude reports. I'm also interested in event semantics and in how intonation interacts with meaning.

Output

Talks in 2025

• BerlinBrnoVienna student conference
  Masaryk University, July 2–4
• MorphoSynSem colloquium
  Potsdam, June 24
• Wondering hopefully/fearfully: How do desires and inquisitive attitudes interact?
  with Ciyang Qing, Maribel Romero and Wataru Uegaki
  SALT 35 at Harvard, May 20–22
• On embedded clauses as modifiers
  NYU Semantics group, March 7
• De diye
  Tu+ 10 at USC, March 1–2
• A causal explanation for the contrafactive gap
  with Tom Roberts
  Workshop on How we do (not) talk about mistaken beliefs
  Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, February 6–7

Papers (selected)

in prep

• A causal explanation for the contrafactive gap
  with Tom Roberts
  submitted to Linguistics & Philosophy
• Challenges to the operationalization of focus-sensitivity in a cross-linguistic context
  with Ciyang Qing, Floris Roelofsen, Wataru Uegaki and Maribel Romero
  submitted to Natural Language Semantics
• When can non-veridical preferential predicates take questions?
  with Ciyang Qing, Floris Roelofsen, Wataru Uegaki and Maribel Romero
  submitted to Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
• Clauses can be modifiers, or arguments: Evidence from alternations in factivity and answer-orientedness in Turkish and Japanese
  with Wataru Uegaki
  submitted to Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
  supersedes our 2023 SALT 33 paper

2023

• A Crosslinguistic Database for Combinatorial and Semantic Properties of Attitude Predicates
  with Ciyang Qing, Floris Roelofsen, Wataru Uegaki and Maribel Romero.
  Proceedings of the ACL Special Interest Group on Typology (SIGTYP)
• On the prosodic exponence of universal quantification in Turkish relative clauses
  with Ömer Demirok
  Languages special issue Theoretical Studies on Turkic Languages

2022

• Event plurality and quantifier scope across clause boundaries
  with Morwenna Hoeks Jonathan Pesetsky and Tom Roberts
  proceedings of SALT 32
  
• Why neg-raising requires stativity
  With Paloma Jeretič
  in Proceedings of the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium

2021

2020

• Should I move for focus and contrastive topic?
  Comments on “Focus and Contrastive Topic in Questions and Answers, with Particular Reference to Turkish” (by Kamali and Krifka) in Theoretical Linguistics

2019

• Potential answer readings expected, missing
  in Proceedings of Tu+ 4
• Complementizers with attitude
  with Ömer Demirok and Balkız Öztürk
  in Proceedings of NELS 49

2018

• Communicative reception reports as hear-say: Evidence from indexical shift in Turkish
  with Emar Maier and Travis Major
  in Proceedings of WCCFL 36
• Not all Turkish possessors are anti-subject oriented
  in Proceedings of WAFL 10

2017

• Attitude reports with and without true belief
  in Proceedings of SALT 27
• Quantifiers in Turkish
  Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language: Volume II, Springer
• Factivity and prosody in Turkish attitude reports
  generals paper, UMass Amherst

2015

• Move to mI, but only if you can
  manuscript, UMass Amherst

2012

• When I is not me: A preliminary study of shifted indexicals in Turkish
  manuscript, ENS, EHESS, Paris V