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Book SynopsisSince 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 al
Trade ReviewWhile 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. * Jacob M. Landau, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem *
Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 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]
