| Description | | - Substantially revised and updated version of successful grammar
- Reflects results of language reform movement
- Deals with every form and construction of pre- and post- reform Turkish that may be encountered in print
- Chapter 13, on sentence-analysis has almost doubled in size
- Chapter 24, providing further examples, has been greatly enlarged
- Extensive cross references, index, and detailed contents page make the book user-friendly
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Since its appearance in 1967, Professor Lewis's Turkish Grammar has been the standard work on the language throughout the English-speaking world. This revised and fully updated new edition further reflects the results of the language reform movement which, though not so drastic in its effect on the spoken language, has made anything written before the early 1930s, and a lot since, increasingly
obscure to subsequent generations. Incorporating much new material, it 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.
Reviews of the first edition:
'This is by far the most comprehensive Turkish grammar ever published in English [Professor Lewis]
guides the student through the delicate labyrinths of the language with sympathetic understanding and what is rare in the grammarian humour The typography and arrangement of the book are beyond all praise, and all in all the book is a most notable achievement.'
Royal Central Asian Journal
'[The] thinnest chapters of a grammar are sometimes those on syntax; but in this book the
discussions of modern Turkish syntax are the strongest sections, illustrated by lucid and penetrating analyses of sentence structure, with no skirting round difficulties or papering over of cracks This book will certainly be instructive and indeed enjoyable reading to every student of Turkish who has already made some progress in the language.'
SOAS Bulletin
'Professor Lewis
displays both a mastery of Turkish grammar and an understanding of how that grammar can be best presented to English speakers. His style is clear and readable, his overall approach extremely practical.'
Middle East Journal
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Readership: Individual purchase/general reader who needs to learn Turkish; students of Turkish learning through institutes, further education colleges etc; undergraduate students studying Turkish courses; modern language libraries.
| Contents |
Introduction
Bibliography
Abbreviations
Orthography and Phonology
The Noun
The Adjective
Noun and Adjective Suffixes
Pronouns
Numerals
Postpositions
The Verb
Participles
Verbal Nouns
Gerunds
Adverbs
Conjunctions and Particles
Word-Formation
The Order of Elements in the Sentence
Number, Case, and Apposition
The Noun Clause and the Substantival Sentence
Adjectival Phrases and Participial Qualifiers
The Subjunctive
Conditional Sentences
Asyndetic Subordination
Punctuation
Sentence-Analysis
Further Examples
Index [the index is further divided for ease of reference]
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Geoffrey Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Turkish, Emeritus Fellow of St. Anthony's College and Honorary Fellow of St John's College, University of Oxford
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