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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.

Product Identifiers

PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100198700369

ISBN-139780198700364

eBay Product ID (ePID)1815434

Product Key Features

Number of Pages328 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameTurkish Grammar

Publication Year2001

SubjectTurkish & Turkic Languages, Grammar & Punctuation

FeaturesSupplement,Revised Edition

TypeLanguage Course

Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines

AuthorGeoffrey Lewis

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight15 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN00-063688

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsWhile others have told the history of the language reform as well, it is Lewis' great merit that more than a third of his study is devoted to analyzing the 'ingredients' and 'concoctions' of this reform as he calls them. This he does both expertly and wittily, enlivening his scholarly discussion of how intellectuals and others employed various suffixes to coin new words while frequently bending the rules of linguistics.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal494/.355

Lc Classification NumberPl123.L4 2000

Table of ContentIntroductionBibliographyAbbreviationsOrthography and PhonologyThe NounThe AdjectiveNoun and Adjective SuffixesPronounsNumeralsPostpositionsThe VerbParticiplesVerbal NounsGerundsAdverbsConjunctions and ParticlesWord-FormationThe Order of Elements in the SentenceNumber, Case, and AppositionThe Noun Clause and the Substantival SentenceAdjectival Phrases and Participial QualifiersThe SubjunctiveConditional SentencesAsyndetic SubordinationPunctuationSentence-AnalysisFurther ExamplesIndex [the index is further divided for ease of reference]