Title: Türkiye Türkçesi Grameri
Subtitle: şekil bilgisi
First published: 2003
Description: Türkiye Türkçesi Grameri: Şekil Bilgisi (Turkey Turkish Grammar (Morphology))

Prof. Zeynep Korkmaz
Publications of Turkish Language Society - 1224 pages

The work written by Prof. Zeynep Korkmaz as a comprehensive grammar of Turkey Turkish, and published amongst the books that were presented to the 80th anniversary of Turkish Republic contains the morphology of Turkey Turkish. The preface of the book, produced within the scope of the project sponsored by State Planning Organisation, provides brief statements about Turkish morphology. Later it separately lists both the abbreviations of the books searched morphologically, and the other abbreviations used in the work. The introductory chapter touches on the general subjects such as chiefly linguistic families, the position of Turkish in the world languages, and the historical development of Turkey Turkish.

The book consists of 4 chapters. In the first chapter entitled “The Basic Characteristics of Morphology, and The Word Formation”, the words are evaluated according to their various aspects such as their roots, structures and  meaning relationships. This chapter, which exemplifies derivational and inflexional suffixes, also touches on inflexible suffixes. In the second chapter entitled “Lexical Words”, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, indicatives, subjunctives, compound verbs, non-finite verbs are explained with their various aspects and abundant examples. In the third chapter entitled “Functional Words”, prepositions and conjunctions are evaluated in terms of their structures, types, and functions. In the fourth chapter entitled “Lexical and Functional Words”, interjections are discussed from various aspects such as their roots, positions in the sentence, and functions.

A wide range of bibliography is provided at the end of the book. The book, in which the subjects are explained with abundant examples, is one of the important publications of Turkish Language Society.
Subjects: Turkish language, Morphology, Grammar
LC classification: PL139 .K67 2003