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.
Autorentext
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.
Zusammenfassung
First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Inhalt
Chapter 1 The alphabet and pronunciation; Chapter 2 Spelling and punctuation; Chapter 3 Forming words and compounds; Chapter 4 The noun and the noun phrase; Chapter 5 Adjectives, determiners, quantifiers; Chapter 6 Numerals and numerical expressions; Chapter 7 Adverbials; Chapter 8 Postpositional phrases; Chapter 9 Pronouns; Chapter 10 Conjunctions; Chapter 11 Basic sentence structure; Chapter 12 Person marking in sentences; Chapter 13 The copula: predicates with -y- ('be') and ol- ('be'/'have'); Chapter 14 Nominal sentences; Chapter 15 Verbal sentences; Chapter 16 The verb form; Chapter 17 Modality; Chapter 18 Questions; Chapter 19 Word order and intonation; Chapter 20 Relative clauses; Chapter 21 Noun clauses; Chapter 22 Adverbial clauses; Chapter 23 Conditional sentences; Chapter 24 Conversational features;