Hi :) I’m Vefa, a second-year linguistics student at Boğaziçi interested in diachronic phonology
Things I like:
- Sound changes!
- Historical linguistics
- Oceanic linguistics
- Melanesia
- Sitcoms and British panel shows
- Song contests
- Bamboo flutes/flutemaking
- The color orange
Things I have done/am doing now:
2024
- Short manuscript, Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics: Turkic lambdacism/sigmatism and the Transeurasian hypothesis
2025
- Internship, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology: quantitative classification and dating methods in historical linguistics in the context of Transeurasian
- Talk, Boğaziçi DUMPLING#1: The Apicolabial Shift in Southern Oceanic Languages
2026
- Talk (upcoming), Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL): Intersecting Sound Changes in Eastern Malakula: A Historical Glottometry Approach
- International School in Linguistic Fieldwork (FieldLing), INALCO, France
- Summer School in Ancient Trans-Himalayan Languages, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Small fieldwork in a village in Trabzon yielding 795 audio recordings
- Biweekly reading group, Humboldt University: PT1283, an Old Tibetan translation of a Turkic text
- Weekly study group (co-organizing), Boğaziçi: beginners' Classical Tibetan
- Twitter bot that posts a random Proto-Oceanic root every day