The Delights of Learning Turkish

The Delights of Learning Turkish
Author: Yasar Esendal Kuzucu
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-05-29
Genre: Turkish language
ISBN: 9781499389432

Includes an answer key, a Turkish-English glossary, and an English-Turkish glossary.

Second Language Acquisition of Turkish

Second Language Acquisition of Turkish
Author: Ayşe Gürel
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2016-05-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027267073

This book brings together the findings of current studies on the second language (L2) acquisition of Turkish, an Altaic language with more than 140 million native speakers around the world. There is now a growing interest in learning and teaching Turkish as an L2, both in and outside Turkey. Coordinated efforts to produce theoretical and empirical work on the acquisition and teaching of L2 Turkish are therefore an urgent need. The compilation in this volume offers eleven L2 studies that explore the representation and/or processing of various linguistic properties in different domains of grammar (phonology, morpho-syntax, pragmatics) and their interfaces. All studies involve adult L2 Turkish learners with various first-language backgrounds at different proficiency levels. With extensive discussions on theoretical and pedagogical issues, this title will appeal to an international readership that includes L2 Turkish researchers, materials designers, and teachers.

Turkish Language, Literature, and History

Turkish Language, Literature, and History
Author: Bill Hickman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2015-10-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317612949

The twenty two essays collected in Turkish Language, Literature and History offer insights into Turkish culture in the widest sense. Written by leaders in their fields from North America, Europe and Turkey, these essays cover a broad range of topics, focusing on various aspects of Turkish language, literature and history between the eighth century and the present. The chapters move between ancient and contemporary literature, exploring Sultan Selim’s interest in dream interpretation, translating newly uncovered poetry and exploring the works of Orhan Pamuk. Linguistic complexities of the Turkish language and dialects are analysed, while new translations of 16th century decrees offer insight into Ottoman justice and power. This is a festschrift volume published for the leading scholar Bob Dankoff, and the diverse topics covered in these essays reflect Dankoff’s valuable contributions to the study of Turkish language and literature. This cross-disciplinary book offers contributions from academics specialising in linguistics, history, literature and sociology, amongst others. As such, it is of key interest to scholars working in a variety of disciplines, with a focus on Turkish Studies.

Turkish Natural Language Processing

Turkish Natural Language Processing
Author: Kemal Oflazer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2018-07-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3319901656

This book brings together work on Turkish natural language and speech processing over the last 25 years, covering numerous fundamental tasks ranging from morphological processing and language modeling, to full-fledged deep parsing and machine translation, as well as computational resources developed along the way to enable most of this work. Owing to its complex morphology and free constituent order, Turkish has proved to be a fascinating language for natural language and speech processing research and applications. After an overview of the aspects of Turkish that make it challenging for natural language and speech processing tasks, this book discusses in detail the main tasks and applications of Turkish natural language and speech processing. A compendium of the work on Turkish natural language and speech processing, it is a valuable reference for new researchers considering computational work on Turkish, as well as a one-stop resource for commercial and research institutions planning to develop applications for Turkish. It also serves as a blueprint for similar work on other Turkic languages such as Azeri, Turkmen and Uzbek.

The Turkic Languages

The Turkic Languages
Author: Lars Johanson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2021-12-27
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1000488241

The Turkic languages are spoken today in a vast geographical area stretching from southern Iran to the Arctic Ocean and from the Balkans to the great wall of China. There are currently 20 literary languages in the group, the most important among them being Turkish with over 70 million speakers; other major languages covered include Azeri, Bashkir, Chuvash, Gagauz, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Noghay, Tatar, Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut, Yellow Uyghur and languages of Iran and South Siberia. The Turkic Languages is a reference book which brings together detailed discussions of the historical development and specialized linguistic structures and features of the languages in the Turkic family. Seen from a linguistic typology point of view, Turkic languages are particularly interesting because of their astonishing morphosyntactic regularity, their vast geographical distribution, and their great stability over time. This volume builds upon a work which has already become a defining classic of Turkic language study. The present, thoroughly revised edition updates and augments those authoritative accounts and reflects recent and ongoing developments in the languages themselves, as well as our further enhanced understanding of the relations and patterns of influence between them. The result is the fruit of decades-long experience in the teaching of the Turkic languages, their philology and literature, and also of a wealth of new insights into the linguistic phenomena and cultural interactions defining their development and use, both historically and in the present day. Each chapter combines modern linguistic analysis with traditional historical linguistics; a uniform structure allows for easy typological comparison between the individual languages. Written by an international team of experts, The Turkic Languages will be invaluable to students and researchers within linguistics, Turcology, and Near Eastern and Oriental Studies.

Studies in Turkish Linguistics

Studies in Turkish Linguistics
Author: Dan Isaac Slobin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 307
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027228760

Turkish is a member of the Turkic family of languages, which extends over a vast area in southern and eastern Siberia and adjacent portions of Iran, Afganistan, and China. Turkic, in turn, belongs to the Altaic family of languages. This book deals with the morphological and syntactic, semantic and discourse-based, synchronic and diachronic aspects of the Turkish language. Although an interest in morphosyntactic issues pervades the entire collection, the contributions can be grouped in terms of relative attention to syntax, semantics and discourse, and acquisition.

Elementary Turkish

Elementary Turkish
Author: Lewis Victor Thomas
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780486250649

This superb grammar and exercise text, used successfully for years at Princeton University, enable English speaking students--in and out of the classroom to gain a quick and thorough understanding of Modern Turkish. In a carefully arranged sequence of 23 lessons, Lewis V. Thomas, late Professor of Oriental Studies at Princeton, presents thorough coverage that allows the student to begin to use the basic patterns of modern Turkish without time-consuming and expensive private instruction.

Conversational Turkish Dialogues

Conversational Turkish Dialogues
Author: Lingo Mastery
Publisher:
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2021-05-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781951949327

Do you wish to speak like a Turkish native? Are you interested in learning Turkish for a trip to Istanbul? If your answer to any of the previous questions was 'Yes', then this book is for you! Turkish isn't one of the most-spoken languages in the world, but it is certainly one of the most useful. Known as the "Bridge between Europe and Asia", you may find yourself visiting the wonderful nation of Turkey for business or pleasure, and you will need to know the language to succeed there! In this book, we have compiled OVER ONE HUNDRED conversational Turkish dialogues along with their translations into English, allowing new Turkish speakers to obtain the necessary tools to understand how to set a meeting, rent a car or tell a doctor that they don't feel well. If speaking the language fluently is your goal, this book is for you! How Conversational Turkish Dialogues works: - Each new chapter will have a fresh, new story between two people who wish to solve a common, day-to-day issue that you will surely encounter in real life. - A Turkish version of the conversation will take place first. Here, we will challenge your skills by allowing you to read the dialogue in its original tongue: you will learn how to read and pronounce each word like a native! - Accurate English translations follow each Turkish conversation, providing you with the opportunity to understand everything that has been said. - A helpful introduction and conclusion that will offer you important strategies, tips and tricks to allow you to get the most out of this learning material. We want you to feel comfortable while learning the tongue; after all, no language should be a barrier for you to travel around the world and expand your online and offline social circles! So, look no further! Pick up your copy of Conversational Turkish Dialogues and start learning Turkish right now!

Dictionary of Italian-Turkish Language (1641) by Giovanni Molino

Dictionary of Italian-Turkish Language (1641) by Giovanni Molino
Author: Elżbieta Święcicka
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2020-01-20
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 3110685116

Giovanni Molino’s Dittionario Della Lingua Italiana, Turchesca (1641), is the first extensive Turkish dictionary of its kind, with nearly 8000 lexical head entries excerpted, not from the Ottoman literature, but the everyday Turkish language, the vernacular for at least a part of the population of 17th century Constantinople. Molino, born Armenus Turcicus Yovhannēs of Ankara, was exposed to the Turkish language from childhood, unlike other authors of the known ‘texts in transcription”. In Armenian cultural history, he is remembered as a man of letters, a publisher and the translator of religious texts, whose services to the history of the Turkish language and the corresponding contribution to Ottoman Turkish culture were to this date unknown. The editor has reversed and reorganised the material of the lexicon from Italian-Turkish to Turkish-Italian. The lexical entries of Molino’s dictionary are presented according to morphological and phonological principles, with their orthographic variants side by side, revealing information on the morpho-phonological patterns of Ottoman-Turkish at that time. The language Molino recorded sounds almost like contemporary Turkish and can be considered a bridge to the modern Turkish language.