2nd Edition

Turkish A Comprehensive Grammar

By Aslı Göksel, Celia Kerslake Copyright 2025
646 Pages
by Routledge

646 Pages
by Routledge

646 Pages
by Routledge

Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar has been extensively revised in this second edition to provide a complete reference guide to modern Turkish grammar, presenting an accessible description of the language with a thorough description of the sound system, intonation patterns, word structure and sentence structure of Turkish. The book presents a stimulating analysis of the complexities of the... Read more

Introduction (Second edition) 

Introduction (First edition)

Abbreviations 

List of conventions observed in this book          

The Turkish alphabet and writing conventions

Part 1: Phonology: the sound system              

1 Phonological units        

Sound changes produced in the word by suffixation 

Vowel harmony

Stress in words and phrases   

5 Intonation and sentence stress

 

 

Part 2: Morphology: the structure of words 

Principles of suffixation             

7 Word classes, derivation and derivational suffixes   

Inflectional suffixes

9 Reduplication

10 Noun compounds          

11 Clitics   

Part 3: Syntax: the structure of sentences   

12 Simple and complex sentences            

13 The verb phrase

14 The noun phrase

15 Adjectival constructions, determiners and numerals

16 Adverbial constructions

 17 Postpositional phrases

18 Pronouns and pronominal constructions

19 Questions

20 Negation

21 Tense, aspect and modality      

22 Definiteness, specificity and generic reference

23 Word order

24 Noun clauses

25 Relative clauses             

26 Adverbial clauses          

27 Conditional sentences

28 Conjunctions, co-ordination and discourse connection

 

Appendix 1 Reduplicated stems            

Appendix 2 Tense, aspect and modality markers          

Glossary of grammatical terms             

Bibliography    

Index 

Biography

Aslı Göksel is an independent researcher and former Professor of Linguistics at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Celia Kerslake was University Lecturer and Emeritus Fellow of Turkish, St Antony’s College, Oxford University, UK.