A Grammar of Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

The descriptions in this chapter are partially based on the references below and partially on research done by the authors during the development of this chapter.

In general, please see the data and consultant information in the references. Unless stated otherwise below, the linguistic data in images and video clips that were produced or reproduced for this chapter were provided by a near-native fluent signing consultant who was born and raised in Istanbul.

More detailed information for some of the sections are also provided below:

[3.4] “Relative clauses”: All the examples in this section have been taken from Kubus (2016). The visuals of these examples will not be reproduced for the grammar since it is very difficult to get complex and context-dependent examples such as those to be reproduced naturally. As explained in detail in Kubus (2016: 152, 308-309), most of these data were taken from social media, such as Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Izlesene.com, which is a very common method for sharing stories and exchanging information among the Deaf community in Turkey.

[3.5] “Adverbial clauses”: the descriptions in this chapter are based on preliminary findings of original research conducted by the author of this section as part of her PhD dissertation. The images and video clips were produced by a near-native fluent signer and a native hard-of-hearing signer, both raised in Istanbul. Additionally, the descriptions and the glossed examples are based on the data produced in natural conversations. These data are part of the BÜ-TİD (Boğaziçi University TİD) corpus.

[3.6] “Comparative clauses”: The data and the descriptions are mainly based on Kaşıkara & Özsoy (2015) and Özsoy & Kaşıkara (2018).