Apr 12 Meeting

Meta

• Participants:
  • Furkan Akkurt (Turkish)
  • Aigul Askarovna (Kyrgyz)
  • Bermet Chontaeva (Kyrgyz)
  • Soudabeh Eslami (Azerbaijani)
  • Gulnura Jumalieva (Kyrgyz)
  • Aida Kasieva (Kyrgyz)
  • Nikolett Mus (Hungarian)
  • Meerim Ryspakova (Kyrgyz)
  • Jonathan Washington (Kyrgyz)
  • Çağrı Çöltekin (Turkish)
• Date: 12/4/2024 16:00 (UTC+3)
• Place: Zoom
  • Link: zoom.us/j/94784185477
  • Meeting ID: 947 8418 5477
  • Passcode: 985109

Agenda

• MWE-UD 2024 Presentation
• Copula discussion
• Meetings
  • Splitting tasks and having invididual meetings
  • Soudabeh and Bermet cannot attend Fridays due to their classes.

Discussion

• Bermet and Soudabeh will apply for reimbursement for the conference.
• If no one volunteers or is able to go, Çağrı Hoca may present as he is already going to be in the conference.
• We talked about some potential issues to discuss:
  • Aida Eje mentioned:
    • Light verb constructions
    • Compounds
    • Participles
  • Çağrı Hoca mentioned:
    • Examples like "ikisi" (two of them), "sarısı" (the yellow part of it) need unified treatment.
    • Postpositions
      • Example: "arabanın üstü" (top of the car; postposition or noun?)
    • Cases
      • Example: "5 kilometre koştum." (I've run for 5 kilometers.; accusative or else?)
    • Secondary predicates
      • Example: "Çayını sıcak içer." (He drinks his tea hot.)
• We've worked on a CoNLL-U file while discussing the copula issues. It can be found here.

Actions

1. Meet next Friday at 16:00 (UTC+3) to continue the discussion.