Turkish Grammar [Hardcover]

Robert Underhill (Author)

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Text: English, Turkish

Product Details

• Hardcover: 474 pages
• Publisher: The MIT Press (September 15, 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0262210061
• ISBN-13: 978-0262210065
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,075,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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  • #53 in Books > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > Instruction > Turkish
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very useful if you want more than Phrase-Book Turkish, February 25, 2000

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Allyson (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turkish Grammar (Hardcover)

I lived in Turkey for seven months, and after establishing a vocab for a few hundred words, decided I needed verbs. I used several good beginner Turkish books such as Teach Yourself Turkish but needed more indepth grammatical knowledge as my Turkish improved. This book gives more background information into grammatical structure, and as an English teacher I found it very useful for comparing the different structures of both languages; it helped me understand the language better, and why my students consistently made the same mistakes as they tried to translate from Turkish to English. This is very difficult to do as the tenses, modal verbs etc are quite different to English structures, not to mention word order, definite articles, modal verbs etc etc etc. I would recommend this book to anyone who is beyond beginner Turkish level, and may be working alone or with a tutor.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book for those who want to get beyond language tapes, August 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Turkish Grammar (Hardcover)

I used this book while I was a visiting professor in Turkey. I needed to learn enough of the language to get around off campus (lectures were in English). I used language tapes and CD-ROMs, but soon ran into their limitations. I needed to learn the grammar of the language, so I could look up unfamiliar words in the dictionary. The book was very helpful in its intended purpose of allowing the English-speaking reader to learn the grammar of the Turkish language: how the various forms of words are built out of their roots, and how sentences are put together. Word order in Turkish is not like that in English, and Turkish uses infixes as well as suffixes, often making it impossible to find the root of a word in the dictionary unless you recognize the infixes.

The only shortcoming of the book is that it looks like photocopied typescript rather than print. However, this is a minor consideration when you need to learn the language.

I highly recommend it for those spending an extended stay in Turkey.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very good, February 9, 2005

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E. C. (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turkish Grammar (Hardcover)

very good. It worths the money. Clear and explanatory. It clarifies points that some other grammars that I have seen don't. Very easy to understand. It also has exercises. No answer key, unfortunately