Overview

This volume is a comprehensive grammar of the Turkish language, suitable both for students of the Turkish language and linguistic scholars. Gerjan van Schaaik draws on sound linguistic research and an extensive corpus of real-life data, alongside more than twenty years of feedback from university classrooms, to provide the most complete, up-to-date, and practically useful survey of the Turkish language ever compiled.Following an introduction that provides background information on the Turkic languages and an overview of the linguistic terminology adopted in the volume, the first part of the book explores the fundamentals of Turkish spelling and pronunciation. Parts II and III explore the noun phrase and adjuncts and modifiers, respectively, while Parts IV and V examine the verbal system and sentence structure. These first five parts together represent a valuable overview of the fundamentals of Turkish grammar. Part VI provides an account of the ways in which new words are constructed on the basis of existing material, and constitutes a bridge to the more advanced matter treated in parts VII and VIII, including relative clauses, subordination, embedded clauses, clausal complements and the finer points of the verbal system. The work will be accompanied by a companion website that will provide exercises to accompany each part.

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Author:   Gerjan van Schaaik (Leiden University (retired))
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.90cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 25.20cm
Weight:   1.514kg
ISBN:  

9780198851509

ISBN 10:   0198851502
Pages:   784
Publication Date:   23 July 2020
Audience:   Adult education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction Part I: Spelling and Pronunciation 2: The alphabet 3: On stress 4: Phonological variation 5: Morphological variation Part II: The Noun Phrase 6: Nouns 7: Pronouns 8: Adjectives 9: Functions of the noun phrase Part III: Adjuncts and Modifiers 10: Spatial orientations 11: Counting and quantities 12: Times and dates 13: Postpositions 14: Adverbs and their like Part IV: Verbs 15: Infinitival forms 16: Imperative forms 17: Negation 18: Indirect imperative forms 19: Optative forms 20: Present, past, and future 21: Abilitative forms 22: Necessity and hypothesis Part V: Sentence Structure 23: Simple sentences 24: Projections 25: On plurality 26: Sundry particles 27: Clause linking 28: Postpositional complements 29: Ordering patterns Part VI: Word Formation 30: Formation of verbs 31: Formation of adjectives and nouns Part VII: Nominalizations 32: Relative clauses 33: Subordination and embedding Part VIII: Complex Sentences 34: Stacking embedded sentences 35: Sentential complements 36: Postposition-like constructions 37: Verbal complexes Glossary of grammatical terms Selected bibliography Indexes

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Until his retirement in 2014, Gerjan van Schaaik taught Turkish grammar and linguistics at Leiden University, and prior to that at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and the Boğaziçi University (Istanbul). His research has been published in the journal Turkic Languages, in edited books published by Benjamins and Harrassowitz Verlag, as well as in several Dutch language journals and books.

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