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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction (Second edition)
Introduction (First edition)
Abbreviations
List of conventions observed in this book
The Turkish alphabet and writing conventions
Phonology: the sound system
1 Phonological units
2 Sound changes produced in the word by suffixation
3 Vowel harmony
4 Stress in words and phrases
5 Intonation and sentence stress
Morphology: the structure of words
6 Principles of suffixation
7 Word classes, derivation and derivational suffixes
8 Inflectional suffixes
9 Reduplication
10 Noun compounds
11 Clitics
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
