Research expertise
- Morphosyntax
- linguistic typology
- Caucasian languages
- Circassian, subordination
- syntactic alignment
- linguistic variation.
Research projects
Opération de recherche au LACITO :
• Terrains, Analyses, et Comparaison des Langues
Keywords
Caucase – langues caucasiques du nord-ouest – syntaxe – tcherkesse occidental – abzakh
Education
- September 2017 – December 2022: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
PhD student at « Ecole Doctorale 622 Sciences du langage »
Dissertation title: Description grammaticale de l’abzakh – Tcherkesse occidental
(Eng: Grammatical description of Abzakh – a West Circassian dialect)
- 2016 – 2017: Université Paris Est Créteil – Val de Marne
MA2 degree in « Lettres, Discours, Francophonie »
Scholarship of the French Government – Double degree program
Title of the MA thesis: Analyse du syntagme nominal de la langue adyghé – Dialectes occidentaux (In accordance with the double degree program between two universities)
- 2015 – 2017: University of Galatasaray
MA1 degree in « Comparative Literature and Applied Foreign Languages »
Title of the MA thesis: Analyse du syntagme nominal de la langue adyghé – Dialectes occidentaux (In accordance with the double degree program between two universities)
- 2008 – 2014: University of Galatasaray
BA degree in «Comparative Literature and Applied Foreign Languages – French Language and Literature » (2 years of preparatory class + 4 years of bachelor’s program
Publications
- Konuk Mezane, “Applicative constructions in Abzakh – a West Circassian dialect”, Journal of Caucasian Studies, Vol. 8 Issue. 14, 2023, p. 83-108 (https://doi.org/10.21488/jocas.1280744)
- Abzakh corpus on Pangloss Collection – open archive of LACITO – CNRS, 2020 (https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/search?s=abzakh)
- Konuk Mezane, “The System of the grammatical determinants of verbs in Abzakh dialect spoken in Turkey – Tense, Aspect and Mood”, Adige Filolojisi II – Adige Dünyasinin Bugünü, Düzce Üniversitesi Yayinlari, 2019, p. 116-324 – Conference proceedings