Table of Contents

Introduction
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]

About the Author

Geoffrey Lewis, FBA 1979, has been Emeritus Professor of Turkish at the University of Oxford since 1986 and a Fellow of St Anthony's College since 1961 (now Emeritus). He was Oxford University Visiting Professor at Robert College Istanbul 195968, and has been a visiting professor at Princeton, UCLA, and the Royal College of Istanbul, and holds honorary doctorates of the University of Istanbul and the University of the Bosphorus. His books include
the original Teach yourself Turkish (1953 and 1988).

Reviews

While 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*