1st Edition

The Syntax Distance of Turkish and Its Applied Aspects

By Cemile Uzun Copyright 2027
194 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the syntactic structures of Turkish across its historical periods, from Old Turkish to Chagatai Turkish. Moving beyond traditional descriptive approaches, it applies dependency grammar and quantitative methods to reveal structural variation and diachronic change. Drawing on carefully prepared corpora representing seven key stages of Turkish, the... Read more

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Dependency Grammar: Theoretical Foundations

Chapter 3. Methodology

Chapter 4. Findings

Chapter 5. Conclusion

Chapter 6. GSM-4 model Proposal

 

Index

Biography

Cemile Uzun, PhD, is a lecturer at Fırat University, Türkiye, where she also completed her BA, MA, and PhD degrees. Her doctoral dissertation focused on “O>U and U>O Sound Change in the Dialects of Turkish in Turkey”. Her research interests include foreign language teaching, lexicography, phonetics, morphology, artificial intelligence, and language technologies. She has published studies on vocabulary acquisition, readability, and AI–human text comparison, and actively contributes to international projects on digital linguistics.