Metin Bagriacik

Biographic Data

ID1714926
NAMEMetin Bagriacik
GIVEN NAMESMetin
FAMILY NAMEBagriacik
SIGNATUREBAGRIACIK M
AFFILIATIONSBogaziçi University
ORCID0000-0003-4544-7503
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Contact at the treetops

    Open AccessMetin Bagriacik, Bahar ÖztürkARTICLEDilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi2026

    We examine the function and structure of ki-clauses in Modern Greek dialects of Trabzon (Romeyka), Silli, Cappadocia and Pharasa. We demonstrate that ki, transferred from Turkish, has been integrated into the clausal spine of these dialects in JudgeP (Krifka, 2023), whereby the speaker renders their private epistemic judgement regarding an assertion in its scope. In the source language, Turkish, ki spells-out not only Judge head—the lowest head i…

  • Emergence of differential object marking in Asia Minor Greek

    Open AccessÜmit Atlamaz, Metin BagriacikARTICLELinguistic Variation2025References: 36

    This paper investigates the emergence of differential object marking (DOM) in the Asia Minor Greek dialect of Pharasa (PhG) under contact with Turkish. We show that DOM in Turkish and PhG are both instances of structural accusative case and DOM can be formally modeled as context sensitive dependent case. We propose that two factors caused the emergence of DOM in PhG, namely (i) case neutralization in indefinite contexts, and (ii) an increase in t…

  • Heritage grammars as checkpoints in acquisition

    Open AccessÜmit Atlamaz, Ömer Demirok et al.ARTICLEGlossa a journal of general…2023

    This paper investigates split ergativity in Turkish-dominant heritage speakers of Kurmanji. We show that the Dependent Case Theory (Marantz 1991; Baker 2015) accounts for the variation in case patterns across the baseline and heritage varieties. We develop a model of checkpoint-based acquisition that allows the emergence of the heritage patterns in Kurmanji as natural outcomes of acquisition paths where upward and downward dependent case rules ar…

  • Recycling a Mixed Language

    Open AccessMelike Uzum, Nehir Demir et al.ARTICLELanguages2023References: 20

    We provide a sketch grammar of a new bilingual mixed language based on data gathered through interaction with its last native speakers. The language, which we call Posha of Çankırı, is spoken in central Turkey. The source languages are Turkish and Lomavren, another bilingual mixed language for which the source languages are Armenian and some Central Indo-Aryan varieties. In Posha of Çankırı, the mixing happens in the nominal morphology and in the…

  • Raising and matching in Pharasiot Greek relative clauses

    Open AccessMetin Bagriacik, Lieven DanckaertARTICLEJournal of Linguistics2021References: 3

    This paper studies the structure and origin of prenominal and postnominal restrictive relative clauses in Pharasiot Greek. Though both patterns are finite and introduced by the invariant complementizer tu , they differ in two important respects. First, corpus data reveal that prenominal relatives are older than their postnominal counterparts. Second, in the present-day language only prenominal relatives involve a matching derivation, whereas post…

  • Representing discourse in clausal syntax

    Open AccessMetin BagriacikARTICLEJournal of Greek Linguistics2017Cited by: 1References: 9

    In Pharasiot Greek, an Asia Minor Greek dialect, a certain particle copied from Turkish, ki , is employed in a number of seemingly unrelated constructions. Close scrutiny, however, reveals that in each of these constructions, ki is employed as a device geared to influencing the interlocutor’s epistemic vigilance. Based on the Cartographic Approach which defends the syntactization of the interpretive domains, I propose that this unique semantics o…