Turkish

Introduction (Second edition)

Introduction (First edition)

Abbreviations

List of conventions observed in this book

The Turkish alphabet and writing conventions

Part 1: 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

Part 2: 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

Part 3: 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