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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. Asli Goksel is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Bogazici 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)
| ISBN | 041546269X | | Pages | 368 | | ISBN13 | 9780415462693
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 566 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Routledge | | Series title | Essential Grammars | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 12 Oct 2010 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY | 494.3582421 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Postgraduate |
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| | | Preface | | | | | | Abbreviations and other notation used in this book | | | | Chapter 1 | | The alphabet and pronunciation | | 1 | | 1.1 | | The Turkish alphabet | | 1 | | 1.2 | | Consonants | | 2 | | 1.3 | | ág' (soft g) | | 4 | | 1.4 | | Pronouncing double consonants | | 5 | | 1.5 | | Vowels | | 6 | | 1.6 | | Long vowels | | 8 | | 1.7 | | Other points affecting pronunciation | | 8 | | 1.8 | | Word stress | | 9 | | Chapter 2 | | Spelling and punctuation | | 12 | | 2.1 | | Regularity of spelling | | 12 | | 2.2 | | The circumflex | | 12 | | 2.3 | | The spelling of foreign names | | 14 | | 2.4 | | The use of capital and lower case letters | | 15 | | 2.5 | | The apostrophe | | 16 | | 2.6 | | Hyphenation | | 20 | | 2.7 | | Other punctuation marks | | 21 | | 2.8 | | The difference between suffixes and particles | | 22 | | Chapter 3 | | Forming words and compounds | | 23 | | 3.1 | | Suffixation | | 23 | | 3.2 | | Non-variable suffixes and particles | | 24 | | 3.3 | | Attaching suffixes to words | | 25 | | 3.4 | | Irregular changes in stems and suffixes | | 26 | | 3.5 | | Vowel harmony | | 27 | | 3.6 | | Vowel loss | | 29 | | 3.7 | | Consonant alternation: p/b, t/d, c/c, k/g, k/g | | 30 | | | More... | | |
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