Turkish

Aslı Göksel is an independent researcher and former Professor of Linguistics at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.Celia Kerslake was University Lecturer and Emeritus Fellow of Turkish, St Antony’s College, Oxford University, UK.

• Introduction (Second edition) Introduction (First edition)Abbreviations List of conventions observed in this book The Turkish alphabet and writing conventionsPart 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 stressPart 2: Morphology: the structure of words 6 Principles of suffixation 7 Word classes, derivation and derivational suffixes 8 Inflectional suffixes9 Reduplication10 Noun compounds 11 Clitics Part 3: Syntax: the structure of sentences 12 Simple and complex sentences 13 The verb phrase14 The noun phrase 15 Adjectival constructions, determiners and numerals16 Adverbial constructions17 Postpositional phrases18 Pronouns and pronominal constructions19 Questions20 Negation21 Tense, aspect and modality 22 Definiteness, specificity and generic reference23 Word order24 Noun clauses25 Relative clauses 26 Adverbial clauses 27 Conditional sentences 28 Conjunctions, co-ordination and discourse connectionAppendix 1 Reduplicated stems Appendix 2 Tense, aspect and modality markers Glossary of grammatical terms Bibliography Index