We’re pleased to share the happy news that Duygu Göksu successfully defended her dissertation on Wednesday, August 2nd. Her dissertation is titled “Long(er) Object Movement in Turkish” focuses on long object movement (LOM), an operation usually equated with restructuring, and demonstrates that LOM is not a uniform phenomenon in Turkish. Verbs allowing LOM fall into two types and exhibit distinct behaviors, with only one type counting as restructuring. 

Pictured above (along with the dissertation fish), her committee consisted of Faruk Akku? (Co-chair), Kyle Johnson (Co-chair), Rajesh Bhatt, and – not pictured, Luiz Amaral (Spanish and Portuguese Studies, Outside Member).

Congratulations, Duygu!