Linguistics Book

Turkish Grammar

Geoffrey Lewis 2000

E-Book: 320 pages

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Download: Turkish Grammar (Lewis 2000).

Incorporating much new material, this new edition of the standard work 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.

Review

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