A. Sumru Özsoy

A. Sumru Özsoy is a leading linguist and Turkish academic working at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.

Education Özsoy received a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Robert College in 1971. She obtained a master's degree in linguistics from Boğaziçi University in 1975 and a PhD in linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1983.

Career Özsoy started her career as an English instructor in 1972. She took part in the founding of the Linguistics Department of Boğaziçi University and was forced to retired in 2022 by the appointed rector Naci İnci who has close relations with AK Parti. Her entry to the campus was forbidden unlawfully.

She represents the Turkish Linguistics Community at the Permanent International Committee of Linguists (CPIL).

Work Özsoy's fields of study are syntax, structure of Turkish, Caucasian languages, cognitive linguistics, sign languages and Turkish Sign Language. She studied with Tevfik Esenç, the last fluent speaker of Ubykh, in his later years. including Türkçe-Turkish (1999) and Türkçe'nin Yapısı. Sesbilim (2004; Structure of Turkish. Phonology). She has also published numerous articles in her fields of study.

She was the coeditor of Dilbilim Araştırmaları from 1990 to 2011 and has been among the editors of Turkic Languages since 1997 which is published by the Harrassowitz publishing house.