Table of Contents

1. The alphabet and pronunciation 2. Spelling and punctuation 3. Forming words and compounds 4. The noun and the noun phrase 5. Adjectives, determiners, quantifiers 6. Numerals and numerical expressions 7. Adverbials 8. Postpositional Phrases 9. Pronouns 10. Conjunctions 11. Basic sentence structure 12. Person marking in sentences 13. The copula: Predicates with -y- (‘be’) and ol- (‘be’/‘have’) 14. Nominal sentences 15. Verbal sentences 16. The Verb Form 17. Modality 18. Questions 19. Word order and intonation 20. Relative clauses 21. Noun clauses 22. Adverbial clauses 23. Conditional sentences 24. Conversational features Appendix A: Inflection of nouns Appendix B: Inflection of nominal predicates

About the Author

Asl? Göksel is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Bo?aziçi University, Istanbul., Celia Kerslake is Lecturer in Turkish in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.