1st Edition

Turkish: An Essential Grammar

By Asli Goksel, Celia Kerslake Copyright 2011
    368 Pages
    by Routledge

    368 Pages
    by Routledge

    Turkish: An Essential Grammar is a concise, user-friendly guide to the most important structures of contemporary Turkish.

    Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging grammar uses clear, jargon-free explanations offering practical guidance on understanding and constructing words and sentences correctly.

    Key features include:

    • pronunciation guide
    • clear grammatical explanations
    • frequent use of examples from colloquial and formal speech, accompanied by translations
    • illustrative tables and a series of appendices to complement the explanations
    • full glossary of grammatical terms.

    With numerous language examples bringing grammar to life, this truly essential reference work will prove invaluable to all students looking to master the patterns of modern Turkish, which are often very different from those in English or other European languages.

    Aslı Göksel is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.

    Celia Kerslake is Lecturer in Turkish in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.

    The two authors previously collaborated on the writing of Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge, 2005)

    1. The alphabet and pronunciation 2. Spelling and punctuation 3. Forming words and compounds  4. The noun and the noun phrase  5. Adjectives, determiners, quantifiers  6. Numerals and numerical expressions 7. Adverbials  8.  Postpositional Phrases  9.  Pronouns  10. Conjunctions  11. Basic sentence structure  12.  Person marking in sentences  13. The copula: Predicates with -y- (‘be’) and ol- (‘be’/‘have’) 14. Nominal sentences  15.  Verbal sentences  16.   The Verb Form  17. Modality  18. Questions  19. Word order and intonation  20. Relative clauses  21. Noun clauses  22.  Adverbial clauses 23. Conditional sentences  24. Conversational features  Appendix A: Inflection of nouns  Appendix B: Inflection of nominal predicates 

    Biography

    Asl? Göksel is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Bo?aziçi University, Istanbul., Celia Kerslake is Lecturer in Turkish in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.