Gulsat Aygen

Aygen received her BA in 1996 and her MA in 1998 from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University, after completing her graduate studies at Harvard and MIT (1998–2002). Her formal advisors were primarily Jim C-T Huang of Harvard and Shigeru Miyagawa of MIT. Noam Chomsky was her informal advisor.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/tortured-prisoner-harvard-graduate|title=From tortured prisoner to Harvard graduate|date=2015-03-24|website=National Catholic Reporter|language=en|access-date=2019-08-01}}

In theoretical linguistics, Aygen has worked extensively on the nature of finiteness, case, and agreement regarding clausal architecture in the world's languages, as well as the structure of reduced relative clauses and embedded clauses, specificity, scrambling, the copula.{{Cite journal|last1=Aygen|first1=Gulsat|last2=Aydın|first2=Özgür|title=Copular Structres{{sic|hide=y}} as (non)phases|url=https://www.academia.edu/39743919|journal=Ankara Papers in Turkish and Turkic Linguistics, Turcologica 113|date=January 2015 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Aygen |first=Gülşat |date=2009 |title=How many manifestations of "copula" can a language employ? |url=https://www.academia.edu/39743910 |journal=Dil ve Edibiyat Dergisi |language=en |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=15–30}}

In applied linguistics and language education, she cultivated a descriptive linguistics approach to English grammar designed to not only assist language learners of all levels to develop and refine their English language use, but also to help those language users understand the deeper structures behind the language without resorting to simple memorization.

In her book English Grammar: a descriptive linguistics approach, she focused on the contradiction between descriptive and prescriptive grammar by developing a new framework with which prescriptive grammar can be re-analyzed using the linguistic tools of descriptive linguistics. This approach has been adopted to teach English grammar to native speakers or non-native speakers of English. The same approach has been adopted to teaching different aspects of English, such as writing.{{Cite web|url=https://www.routledge.com/Word-Choice-Errors-A-Descriptive-Linguistics-Approach-1st-Edition/Aygen-Eastlund/p/book/9780367203955|title=Word Choice Errors: A Descriptive Linguistics Approach, 1st Edition (Paperback) - Routledge|website=Routledge.com|language=en|access-date=2019-08-01}} In Word Choice Errors: A descriptive linguistics approach, this descriptive linguistics approach is applied by enabling language learners to understand their choice of words at a true descriptive linguistics level.

In languages other than English, Aygen also worked and published on teaching Turkish as a second language,{{Cite journal|last=Aygen|first=Gulsat|title=Aygen. Some linguistics issues in Turkish textbooks|url=https://www.academia.edu/39775482|journal=Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi/Journal of Language and Literature, 9:1|date=January 2013 |language=en}} English as a second language, and gave talks on teaching Kurdish as a second language. She has also authored reference grammars of Kurmanji Kurdish and Kirmancki/Zazaki Kurdish.{{Cite book|title=Zazaki/Kirmancki Kurdish. Languages of the World/Materials 479|last=Aygen|first=Gulsat|publisher=Lincom Europa|year=2010|location=München}}{{Cite book|title=Kurmanjî Kurdish. Languages of the World/Materials 468|last=Aygen|first=Gulsat|year=2007|location=München}}

In sociolinguistics, she has worked on the languages of the Grand Bazaar{{Cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/21273344|title=Languages of Kapalıçarşı/ the Grand Bazaar|website=www.academia.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-08-01}} and in media studies on syntax of the TV series Frasier.{{Cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/31138846|title=2016. "Syntax in Seattle" in Watching TV with a Linguist.|website=www.academia.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-08-01}}

She has also co-authored work on morphosyntax of agrammatic aphasia,{{Cite journal|last1=Bastiaanse|first1=R.|last2=Aygen|first2=G.|last3=Yarbayduman|first3=T.|title=The production of Turkish relative clauses in agrammatism: Verb inflection and constituent order|url=https://www.academia.edu/13463813|journal=Brain and Language|year=2008|language=en|volume=105|issue=3|pages=149–160|doi=10.1016/j.bandl.2007.11.001|pmid=18076978|s2cid=32157024|issn=0093-934X}}{{Cite journal|last1=Duman|first1=Tuba Yarbay|last2=Aygen|first2=Gulsat|title=Object scrambling and finiteness in Turkish agrammatic production|url=https://www.academia.edu/13463814|journal=Brain and Language|date=January 2006 |volume=99 |issue=1–2 |pages=75–76 |doi=10.1016/j.bandl.2006.06.047 |s2cid=53259501 |language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=Aygen|first=Gulsat|title=Object scrambling and finiteness in Turkish agrammatic production|url=https://www.academia.edu/5364570|journal=Journal of Neurolinguistics|date=January 2007 |language=en}} neurology, and history of neuroscience.

Podcast Talks

Part 1-https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2024-04-05/the-ultimate-goal-of-education-with-niu-professor-gulsat-aygen-part-1-teachers-lounge-podcast

Part II - https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2024-04-19/the-ultimate-goal-of-education-with-niu-professor-gulsat-aygen-part-2-teachers-lounge-podcast

Spotify:

Part I - https://open.spotify.com/episode/74tANb1vRit6PNKwiDIVcq

Part II - https://open.spotify.com/episode/6cqv25oRHEwzeVJWyCbcxa

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• [https://www.niutoday.info/2015/04/09/gulsat-aygen-the-fellow-learner/ Gulsat Aygen: The fellow learner]
• [https://www.duzceyerelhaber.com/hidir-gevis/35941-resm%C3%AE-dili-kaldirsak-mi Resmî dili kaldırsak mı] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211221132717/https://www.duzceyerelhaber.com/hidir-gevis/35941-resm%C3%AE-dili-kaldirsak-mi |date=2021-12-21 }}
• [http://www.milliyet.com.tr/pembenar/iskenceciler-afise-ediliyor-5209717 İşkenceciler afişe ediliyor]
• [https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/jeri-laber/the-courage-of-strangers/9781586489663/ The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age With the Human Rights Movement]
• [http://bianet.org/biamag/print/132631-kaktusler-susuz-da-yasar Kaktüsler Susuz da Yaşar]
• [http://www.osmanaydinli.com/?page=ayrinti_k_tanitim&no=10 Kitle ve İktidar: Elias Canetti (çev. Gülşat Aygen)]
• [https://www.insanokur.org/kitle-ve-iktidar-elias-canetti-30-yil-dusunmede-israr-ederek-yazilmis-insani-anlamanin-kaynagi/ Kitle ve İktidar – Elias Canetti. 30 yıl düşünmede ısrar ederek yazılmış, insanı anlamanın kaynağı]

• {{official|http://www.gulsataygen.org/}}
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• [https://open.spotify.com/episode/0OdxwjwZBKM2hqqAZTeYeT?si=8d0SrVIdRbmVfmLssU_OSg (TR) Guest of an episode of Nilay Örnek's nasıl olunur podcast]

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