Gregory Key

Gregory Key serves as a Turkish Lecturer within the Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies program at Binghamton University. His responsibilities encompass teaching modern Turkish language courses at elementary and intermediate levels, as well as Ottoman Turkish, Turkish literature in translation, and Turkish media and pop culture.

Key's research is centered on Turkish linguistics, with a focus on morphosyntax. He investigates the structural properties of Turkish, including causative constructions, unaccusative verbs, and differential object marking. His theoretical work aims to understand Turkish as a coherent synchronic system, and he actively explores the implications of linguistic theory for language pedagogy.

His scholarly output demonstrates a consistent emphasis on syntactic and morphological phenomena in Turkish and related languages. Recent publications address complex predicates, language contact between Turkic and Persian, and the decomposition of verbal structures. These contributions highlight his expertise in theoretical linguistics and its application to the Turkish language.