ABSTRACT

Turkish is spoken by about fifty million people in Turkey and is the co-official language of Cyprus. Whilst Turkish has a number of properties that are similar to those of other Turkic languages, it has distinct and interesting characteristics which are given full coverage in this book. Jaklin Kornfilt provides a wealth of examples drawn from different levels of vocabulary: contemporary and old, official and colloquial. They are accompanied by a detailed grammatical analysis and English translation.

chapter 1|211 pages

Syntax

chapter 2|271 pages

Morphology

chapter 3|33 pages

Phonology

chapter 4|3 pages

Ideophones and interjections

chapter 5|18 pages

Lexicon