Turkish Grammar / Edition 2

by Geoffrey Lewis

Overview

Incorporating much new material, this new edition of the standard work presents an authoritative, lucid, and engaging text, setting out every form and construction of pre- and post-reform Turkish that may be encountered in print, as well as colloquial usages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198700364
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/16/2001
Edition description:	Subsequent
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	8.44(w) x 6.46(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Geoffrey Lewis, FBA 1979, has been Emeritus Professor of Turkish at the University of Oxford since 1986 and a Fellow of St Anthony's College since 1961 (now Emeritus). He was Oxford University Visiting Professor at Robert College Istanbul 195968, and has been a visiting professor at Princeton, UCLA, and the Royal College of Istanbul, and holds honorary doctorates of the University of Istanbul and the University of the Bosphorus. His books include the original Teach yourself Turkish (1953 and 1988).

Table of Contents

IntroductionBibliographyAbbreviationsOrthography and PhonologyThe NounThe AdjectiveNoun and Adjective SuffixesPronounsNumeralsPostpositionsThe VerbParticiplesVerbal NounsGerundsAdverbsConjunctions and ParticlesWord-FormationThe Order of Elements in the SentenceNumber, Case, and AppositionThe Noun Clause and the Substantival SentenceAdjectival Phrases and Participial QualifiersThe SubjunctiveConditional SentencesAsyndetic SubordinationPunctuationSentence-AnalysisFurther ExamplesIndex [the index is further divided for ease of reference]