Haydar Batuhan Yıldız
About me
I am a theoretical and empirical linguist with a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cologne, where I currently work as a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher. My research bridges formal syntactic theory and empirical approaches, focusing on how nominal and verbal features interact to shape argument structure. My main areas of interest include genitive variation, Differential Object Marking, and causative alternation and recursion. Specializing in the morphosyntax-semantics-pragmatics interface, I combine formal analysis with corpus and experimental data, employing multifactorial statistical models to examine structural complexity and cross-linguistic variation. I have strong quantitative and analytical skills, with expertise in experimental design, linguistic annotation, and large-scale corpus analysis.
Current research areas
- Argument and event structure of causatives
- Causative alternation and recursion
- Differential Object Marking
- Discourse pragmatics
Research methods
- Corpus linguistics
- Offline experiments
- Statistical data analysis
Haydar Batuhan Yıldız - Linguist 