Sofia Prokou

Specialised Teaching and Research Staff (EEDIP/EEP)

sprokou[at]turkmas.uoa[dot]gr

3 hours per week

Course Objectives

This course pursues the work of the previous term - 5th term - which gave special attention to an in-depth study of the complex grammatical structures of Turkish.

Besides the examination of the subordinate and complementary clauses, it deals with more complex aspects of the verbal system of Turkish. We focus on those more complex structures of contemporary Turkish, both at the level of morphology and syntax. While doing so, we discuss how meaning interrelates with structure. Knowing well the principal forms that words can take in Turkish (basic morphology), during the 6th term we give more emphasis on the ways in which words combine into phrases, clauses and sentences.

We proceed to a more complete presentation of how relative clauses, having an adjectival function, follow the head final word order of Turkish. Syntax and semantics, in particular when dealing with transitivity and the voices of the Turkish verb, are the centre of our focus.

Course Structure

After the first four to five weeks of the Spring term dedicated to an in-depth study of the relative clause, we proceed to another four to five weeks period dedicated to the causative, passive, reflexive an the reciprocal voice of the Turkish verb with special attention to the way voice suffixes in Turkish are used to alter the transitivity of a verb. As we did in the previous term, we refer to similar forms of Modern Greek in order to make a contrastive analysis of the two languages, which from our point of view, serves didactic purposes. Classes focus to the possible combination of voices:

1. Ettirgen + (ettirgen) + edilgen çatı

2. İşteş + ettirgen çatı

3. İşteş + edilgen çatı

4. İşteş + ettirgen + edilgen çatı

We conclude with a two-weeks study of the compound verbs, formed by using bound auxiliaries such as -(y)Abil-, -(y)Iver-, (Ñ-(y)Agel-, Ñ-(y)Adur-, Ñ-(y)Akal-, Ñ-(y)Ayaz-) as well as those formed with free auxiliaries such as ol-, et-, yap-, dur-, kal-, çık-, düş-, Ñbuyur-, Ñeyle- (e.g.Hazır ol-, teslim ol-, yardım et-, etc).

Assessment

Mid-term test (20% of the final grade), final examination (80% of the total grade, 5 is the minimum grade required).

Bibliography

Göksel Aslı – Celia Kerslake, Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar, Routledge, London, 2004

Kornfilt Jaklin, Turkish, Routledge, London, 1997,

Underhill Robert, Turkish Grammar, MIT Press, 1976

Lewis Geoffrey, Turkish Grammar , Oxford U.P., Oxford , 2001

Banguoğlu Tahsin, Türkçenin Grameri, Türk Dil Kurumu, Ankara 1998

Korkmaz Zeynep, Türkiye Türkçesi Grameri (Şekil Bilgisi), Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları: 827, Ankara 2003

Textbook:

Özsoy Sumru, Türkçe-Turkish, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul, 1999

A syllabus prepared by the lecturer is distributed in class and available on the e-class platform in a more concise form. Apart from the syllabus, the textbook mentioned above is distributed to students.