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Turkish: An Essential Grammar
Turkish: An Essential Grammar is a concise, user-friendly guide to the most important structures of contemporary Turkish.
Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging grammar uses clear, jargon-free explanations offering practical guidance on understanding and constructing words and sentences correctly.
Key features include:
pronunciation guide clear grammatical explanations frequent use of examples from colloquial and formal speech, accompanied by translations illustrative tables and a series of appendices to complement the explanations full glossary of grammatical terms.
With numerous language examples bringing grammar to life, this truly essential reference work will prove invaluable to all students looking to master the patterns of modern Turkish, which are often very different from those in English or other European languages.
Asl? Goksel is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Bo?azici University, Istanbul.
Celia Kerslake is Lecturer in Turkish in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.
The two authors previously collaborated on the writing of Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge, 2005)
Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging grammar uses clear, jargon-free explanations offering practical guidance on understanding and constructing words and sentences correctly.
Key features include:
pronunciation guide clear grammatical explanations frequent use of examples from colloquial and formal speech, accompanied by translations illustrative tables and a series of appendices to complement the explanations full glossary of grammatical terms.
With numerous language examples bringing grammar to life, this truly essential reference work will prove invaluable to all students looking to master the patterns of modern Turkish, which are often very different from those in English or other European languages.
Asl? Goksel is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Bo?azici University, Istanbul.
Celia Kerslake is Lecturer in Turkish in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.
The two authors previously collaborated on the writing of Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge, 2005)
368 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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June 4, 2016
Does an excellent job of explaining the grammar rules of what has been, for me, a difficult language to learn. A few more examples of when to use various cases (dative, accusative, etc.) would have been helpful, but it is very very good as-is.
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