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I am currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. I received my PhD at Cornell University in 2023. My dissertation titled Differential Subject Marking in Kazakh investigated the syntactic underpinnings of variable subject case marking in embedded clauses.

Originally from Szeged, Hungary, I studied Turkic languages (Turkish and Kazakh), diachronic linguistics, and Turkology in the Department of Altaic Studies at the University of Szeged. It was here, where I earned my first PhD in Altaic Studies in 2016.

My research seeks to understand questions related to the syntactic and morphological structure and its connection to meaning through the lens of Turkic languages such as Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek. Broadly speaking, I am interested in questions such as introduction of arguments in the verbal structure, pluractionality, reciprocals, causatives, inchoatives; the syntax of nominalized clauses, hyperraising, the structure of relative clauses, and case marking.

This is my CV [updated 2024 Sep].

Contact: eszter.otottkovacs@utoronto.ca, eo264@cornell.edu