Head Researcher

Dr. Filiz Kiral

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Filiz Kiral studied Turcology at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. In 1997 she completed her Ph.D. thesis on the influence of Persian on the spoken Azerbaijanian in Iran. She has conducted fieldwork among Turkic peoples in Iran, especially among the Azeri, Qashqay and Khalaj. Currently she is investigating the Khalaj language, which is on the brink of language death.

From 1997 to 2004 she was employed as a research fellow at the Sonderforschungsbereich 295 at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, on Linguistic and Cultural Contacts. Its Turcological project deals with Turkic varieties of Iran and southeastern Turkey. Since 2004 she is a research fellow at the Orient-Institut Istanbul, where since 2007 she functions as the acting director.

Publications

Das gesprochene Aserbaidschanisch von Iran. Eine Studie zu den syntaktischen Einflüssen des Persischen. (Turcologica 43) Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz. 2001.

Reflections on -miš in Khalaj. In: Johanson, Lars & Utas, Bo (eds.) 2000. Evidentials. Turkic, Iranian and neighbouring languages. Berlin & New York : Mouton de Gruyter. 2000. 89-101.

Copied relative constructions in Khalaj. In: Göksel, Aslı & Kerslake, Celia 2000. Studies on Turkish and Turkic languages. Proceeding of the Ninth International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, Oxford, 1998. (Turcologica 46.) 2000. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz. 181-188.

with Bulut, Christiane: A project description. Turkic varieties in South Anatolian and West Iranian contact areas in their relationship to normative centers. In: Özsoy, A. Sumru & Taylan, Eser E. (eds.) 2000. Türkçe’nin ağızları çalıştayı bildirileri [Workshop on dialects of Turkish]. Istanbul : Boğaziçi Üniversitesi. 73-80.

Kopien von persischen Funktionseinheiten im Irantürkischen. In: Nurettin Demir & Fikret Turan: Scholarly depths and thought. A Festschrift for Lars Johanson. Ankara : Grafiker, 2002. 217-227.

Modal Constructions in Turkic of Iran. In É.Á. Csató, B. Isaksson & C. Jahani (eds.) Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion. Case studies from Iranian, Semiticand Turkic. London and New York : Routledge, 2004. 285-295.

with Christiane Bulut: Kode-Kopieren und struktureller Wandel in turko-iranischen Sprach-kontakten. In: Walter Bisang, Thomas Bierschenk, Detlef Kreikenbom & Ursula Verhoeven (eds.) Kultur, Sprache, Kontakt. Kulturelle und sprachliche Kontakte Band 1. Würzburg : Ergon Verlag, 2004. 149-169.

Izafet-constructions in Iran-Turkic. In: Hendrik Boeschoten & Lars Johanson (eds.) 2006: Turkic languages in contact. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz. 158-165.

Linguistic Data as an Indicator of Cultural Change: The Case of Iran-Turkic. In: F. Kıral, B. Pusch, C. Schönig & A. Yumul (eds.) Cultural Changes in the Turkic World. Istanbuler Texte und Studien. Würzburg : Ergon Verlag, 2007. 161-169.

Weiteres zum Imperativ im Chaladsch. UAJB Band 20. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2006. 183-198.

Alan Çalışmasında Veri Toplama Sorunları. Türk Dili Araştırmaları. (forthcoming).