PAPERS
Oğuz, M. (Submitted) Indexical Shift and its interactions with Perspective Sensitive Items (PSIs): Indexical PSIs in Turkish.
Oğuz, M. & Ding, C. & Wilcox, E. & Fuchs, Z. (Submitted) Using MoTR to probe agreement errors in Russian.
Fuchs, Z., Kealey, E., Eldem-Tunç, E., Mermelstein, L., Pham, L., Runova, A., Chen, Y., Oğuz, M., Hong, S., Pan, C., & Subramony. J., (Submitted). Measuring adult heritage language lexical proficiency for studies on facilitative processing of gender. In O. Ivanova & Ó. Loureda (Eds.), Language Processing in Spanish Heritage Speakers [Special issue]. Languages.
Bakay, Ö. & Oğuz, M. (2024). Investigating syntactic effects in NPI illusions in Turkish. Proceedings of Ninth Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (TU+9).
Oğuz, M. & Ciftci, Y. U. & Bakman, Y. (2024). Do LLMs Recognize me, When I is not me: Assessment of LLMs Understanding of Turkish Indexical Pronouns in Indexical Shift Contexts. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Turkic Languages (SIGTURK 2024), pages 53–61, Bangkok, Thailand and Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Oğuz, M. & Kaiser, E. (2024). Processing Turkish case markers: Implications for the Case Containment Hypothesis. Proceedings of Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 100.
Oğuz, M. & Kaiser, E. (2023). Interpretation of Turkish reflexive anaphors: subjecthood vs semantic role. Proceedings of Eighth Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (TU+8).
Oğuz, M. (to appear). Perspective shift and Accusative Subject Clauses (ASCs) in Turkish: An argument for the proleptic analysis of ASCs. Proceedings of Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL) 16. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
Oğuz, M. (2022). Proleptic Analysis of Turkish Accusative Subject Clauses. USC Working Papers in Linguistics. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Oğuz, M. & Oney, B. & Storoshenko, D. R. (2020). Obligatory Indexical Shift in Turkish. Proceedings in Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA). Western University, London, ON, Canada
Oğuz, M. (2020). Case Assignment on Bare Direct Objects in Turkish. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics (CWPL). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
EDITORSHIP
Oğuz, M. & Kim, S. (2022). USC Working Papers in Linguistics. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Nikolic, D. & Daniel, A.D. & Nelson, B. & Oğuz, M. & Xu, K. (2020). Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics (CWPL). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
PRESENTATIONS
2025
Oğuz, M. 2025. Perspective sensitive items (PSIs) affected by Indexical Shift: Indexical PSIs in Turkish. 43rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43). Seattle, WA, USA
Oğuz, M. 2025. Indexical Shift and its interactions with Perspective Sensitive Items (PSIs): Indexical PSIs in Turkish. Invited talk at University of California, Santa Cruz S-Circle Meetings. Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Oğuz, M. & Kaiser, E. 2025. Perceiver-oriented reflexives in Turkish: semantics defeats syntax in reflexive resolution. 38th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP 38). College Park, MD, USA
Oğuz, M. 2025. Indexical Shift and its interactions with Perspective Sensitive Items (PSIs): Indexical PSIs in Turkish. Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting 101. Philadelphia, PA, USA
2024
Oğuz, M. Using Mouse Tracking while Reading (MoTR) to investigate agreement errors in Russian. Invited colloquium talk at Marburg University Department of Linguistics. Marburg, Germany (in collaboration with Z. Fuchs, E. Wilcox, and C. Ding)
Oğuz, M. & Kaiser, E. 2024. Effects of syntactic locality and semantic roles: Insights from Turkish reflexives. California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP) 7. San Diego, CA, USA (oral presentation)
Oğuz, M. & Ding, C. & Wilcox, E. & Jäger, L. & Fuchs, Z. 2024. Using Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR) to investigate the processing of agreement errors. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 30. Edinburgh, UK (oral presentation)
Oğuz, M. & Ciftci, Y. U. & Bakman, Y. 2024. Do LLMs Recognize me, When I is not me: Assessment of LLMs Understanding of Turkish Indexical Pronouns in Indexical Shift Contexts. SIGTURK Workshop 2024 (held in conjunction with Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand. (oral presentation)
Wilcox, E., Oğuz, M., Ding, C. & Fuchs, Z. 2024. How does dependency type mediate gender agreement in Russian?. CogSci2024 Society of Cognitive Science. Rotterdam, Netherlands (poster)
Bakay, Ö. & Oğuz, M. 2024. Investigating syntactic effects on NPI illusions in Turkish. 37th conference on Human Sentence Processing (HSP). Ann Arbor, MI, USA (poster)
Bakay, Ö. & Oğuz, M. 2024. Investigating syntactic effects on NPI illusions in Turkish. Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (TU+) 9. Ithaca, NY, USA (poster)
Oğuz, M. & Kaiser, E. 2024. On the interplay of syntax, verb directedness and individual differences: Exploring the processing of reflexive anaphors with mouse-tracking over the internet. California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP) 6. Stanford, CA, USA
Oğuz, M. & Kaiser, E. 2024. Comparing simple and complex Turkish reflexives: Effects of semantic and syntactic factors. Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting 100. New York, NY, USA
Oğuz, M. & Kaiser, E. 2024. Processing Turkish case markers: Implications for the Case Containment Hypothesis.Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting 100. New York, NY, USA
2023
Oğuz, M. 2023. More than indexical shift: Shifty contexts in Turkish. Southern California Annual Meeting on Syntax (SCAMS) 3. Pomona, CA, USA (oral presentation)
Oğuz, M. & Kaiser, E. 2023. Processing Turkish case markers: Frequency vs morphosyntactic complexity. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 29. San Sebastian, Spain (poster)
Oğuz, M. & Kaiser, E. 2023. Interpretation of Turkish reflexive anaphors: subjecthood vs semantic role. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 29. San Sebastian, Spain (poster)
Oğuz, M. & Kaiser, E. 2023. Interpretation of Turkish reflexive anaphors: subjecthood vs semantic role. Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (TU+) 8. Cambridge, MA, USA (poster presentation)
2022
Oğuz, M. 2022. Perspective Shift and Accusative Subject Clauses (ASC) in Turkish: An argument for the proleptic analysis of ASCs. Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL) 16. Rochester, NY, USA (oral presentation, held online)
2021
Oğuz, M. 2021. Investigating Raising Structures in Turkish. Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Meeting. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (oral presentation, held online)
2020
Oğuz, M. & Öney, B. & Storoshenko, D. R. 2020. Obligatory Indexical Shift in Turkish. Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Meeting. London, Ontario, Canada (oral presentation, held online)
Oğuz, M. 2020. Movement of Turkish Bare Direct Objects motivated by strong Accusative Case feature. Montana-Alberta Conference on Linguistics. Missoula, Montana, United States of America (oral presentation, held online)
2019
Demir, O. & Oğuz, M. 2019. Processing of Ambiguity Caused by Restrictive vs Non-restrictive Relative Clauses in Turkish. Alberta Conference on Linguistics: Indigenous Languages. Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada (oral presentation)
Oğuz, M. 2019. Case Assignment of Bare Direct Objects in Turkish. 13th Student Linguistics Conference. Ankara, Turkey (oral presentation)
Demir, O. & Oğuz, M. 2019. Kısıtlayıcı ve Kısıtlayıcı Olmayan İlgi İç Tümcelerinden Kaynaklanan Anlam Belirsizliklerinin İşlemlenmesi (Processing of Ambiguity Caused by Restrictive vs Non-restrictive Relative Clauses in Turkish). 33rd National Linguistics Conference. Mersin, Turkey (poster)