Turkish: An Essential Grammar (Essential Grammars)

PEMTurkish: An Essential Grammar/EM is a concise, user-friendly guide to the most important structures of contemporary Turkish. /P PPresenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging grammar uses clear, jargon-free explanations offering practical guidance on understanding and constructing words and sentences correctly. /P PKey features include:/P UL P LIpronunciation guide/LI LIclear grammatical explanations/LI LIfrequent use of examples from colloquial and formal speech, accompanied by translations/LI LIillustrative tables and a series of appendices to complement the explanations/LI LIfull glossary of grammatical terms./LI P/P/UL P/P PWith numerous language examples bringing grammar to life, this truly essential reference work will prove invaluable to all students looking to master the patterns of modern Turkish, which are often very different from those in English or other European languages./P P/P PSTRONGAslı Göksel/STRONG is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. /P PSTRONGCelia Kerslake/STRONG is Lecturer in Turkish in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford./P P/P PThe two authors previously collaborated on the writing of EMTurkish: A Comprehensive Grammar/EM (Routledge, 2005) /P