Turkish Grammar
Robert Underhill, "Turkish Grammar"
English, Turkish | ISBN: 0262210061 | 1976 | 494 pages | PDF (Scan) | 13 MB
English, Turkish | ISBN: 0262210061 | 1976 | 494 pages | PDF (Scan) | 13 MB
Review
Good book for those who want to get beyond language tapes
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.