Oxford Turkish Grammar

This volume is a comprehensive grammar of the Turkish language, suitable both for students of the Turkish language and linguistic scholars. Gerjan van Schaaik draws on sound linguistic research and an extensive corpus of real-life data, alongside more than twenty years of feedback from university classrooms, to provide the most complete, up-to-date, and practically useful survey of the Turkish language ever compiled. Following an introduction that provides background information on the Turkic languages and an overview of the linguistic terminology adopted in the volume, the first part of the book explores the fundamentals of Turkish spelling and pronunciation. Parts II and III explore the noun phrase and adjuncts and modifiers, respectively, while Parts IV and V examine the verbal system and sentence structure. These first five parts together represent a valuable overview of the fundamentals of Turkish grammar. Part VI provides an account of the ways in which new words are constructed on the basis of existing material, and constitutes a bridge to the more advanced matter treated in parts VII and VIII, including relative clauses, subordination, embedded clauses, clausal complements and the finer points of the verbal system. The work will be accompanied by a companion website that will provide exercises to accompany each part.

Until his retirement in 2014, Gerjan van Schaaik taught Turkish grammar and linguistics at Leiden University, and prior to that at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and the Böaziçi University (Istanbul). His research has been published in the journal Turkic Languages, in edited books published by Benjamins and Harrassowitz Verlag, as well as in several Dutch language journals and books.

1: Introduction
Part I: Spelling and Pronunciation
2: The alphabet
3: On stress
4: Phonological variation
5: Morphological variation
Part II: The Noun Phrase
6: Nouns
7: Pronouns
8: Adjectives
9: Functions of the noun phrase
Part III: Adjuncts and Modifiers
10: Spatial orientations
11: Counting and quantities
12: Times and dates
13: Postpositions
14: Adverbs and their like
Part IV: Verbs
15: Infinitival forms
16: Imperative forms
17: Negation
18: Indirect imperative forms
19: Optative forms
20: Present, past, and future
21: Abilitative forms
22: Necessity and hypothesis
Part V: Sentence Structure
23: Simple sentences
24: Projections
25: On plurality
26: Sundry particles
27: Clause linking
28: Postpositional complements
29: Ordering patterns
Part VI: Word Formation
30: Formation of verbs
31: Formation of adjectives and nouns
Part VII: Nominalizations
32: Relative clauses
33: Subordination and embedding
Part VIII: Complex Sentences
34: Stacking embedded sentences
35: Sentential complements
36: Postposition-like constructions
37: Verbal complexes
Glossary of grammatical terms
Selected bibliography
Indexes