Turkish

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.

List of contents

1: Syntax; 2: Morphology; 3: Phonology; 4: Ideophones and interjections; 5: Lexicon

About the author

Jaklin Kornfilt

Summary

Turkish provides a complete grammatical description of this unique language, spoken by fifty million people.

Product details

• Authors: Jaklin Kornfilt, Kornfilt Jaklin
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.1997
• EAN: 9780415000109
• ISBN: 978-0-415-00010-9
• No. of pages: 608
• Weight: 1065 g
• Series: Descriptive Grammars
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Literature: history & criticism, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Literature: history and criticism