Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
TURKISH SYNTAX TUR337 5. Semester 4 + 0 4.0 5.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
Instructors Paşa YAVUZARSLAN
Assistants
Goals To teach the principles of Turkish syntax, basic concepts, constructions and patterns; to enable comprehension of Turkish sentence structures and formations with examples.
Course Content In this course, subjects of “phrase structure” and “sentence” which are basic terms of syntax are discussed. Phrase structures in Turkish, their formations and features, sentence structure, syntactic features of Turkish sentences, word order, constituents of sentence are mentioned. Types of sentence are examined too.
Learning Outcomes 1) Basic terms and concepts of syntax which is one of the component of grammar are learned.
2) With reference to modern syntax theories, phrases and sentence structures are determined.
3) Phrase types and sentence types in Turkish are learned, these are determined in texts.
4) Obligatory and optional constituents forming sentence are learned.
5) Syntactic analysis are done in written and spoken texts.
6) Comparing Turkish with other languages in terms of phrase structure and sentence structure, similar and different features are determined.

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week The scope of syntax, brief history of studies on Turkish syntax done by Turcologists. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework
2. Week Content of the basic terms of syntax such as “phrase, phrase structure, sentence, parts of speech, valency and theta role. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework
3. Week Phrase structure in Turkish, phrase types (noun phrase, verb phrase, adjectival phrase, adverbial phrase, prepositional phrase). Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework
4. Week Valency and theta roles (agent, patient, experiencer, topic/theme, goal, source / origion, location, beneficiary, instrument). Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework
5. Week Concept of “sentence” and key features of sentence. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework
6. Week Constituents of sentence, determining obligotory and optional constituents. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework
7. Week Types of sentences in Turkish in terms of construction, meaning, parts of speech of the predicate. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework
8. Week Nominal sentence in Turkish and presentation of features with examples. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework
9. Week Verbal sentence in Turkish and presentation of features with examples. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework
10. Week Simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, coordinate sentence, juxtaposed sentence in Turkish. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework
11. Week Types of compound sentence in Turkish, interior syntactic features, exterior syntactic features, grammatical transformations. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework
12. Week “Clause” concept in Turkish, features of finite clauses and nonfinite clauses. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework
13. Week Linking of clauses to matrix clause and presentation of examples. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework
14. Week Doing syntactic analyses using texts and the general evaluation of subjects of syntax. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Colloquium
 Homework

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
• Berke Vardar (2002), Açıklamalı Dilbilim Terimleri Sözlüğü, İstanbul: Multilingual Yayınları.
• Duygu Özge Gürkan (2016), Türkçede Belirteç İşlevli Bağımlı Cümleler, Ankara: Grafiker Yayınları.
• Fatma Erkman-Akerson ve S. N. Şeyda Ozil (2015), Türkçede Niteleme-Sıfat İşlevli Yan Tümceler, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları.
• Hürriyet Gökdayı (2017), “Öbekleri Oluşturan Sözcükler Arasındaki Anlam İlişkileri”, Türük Uluslararası Dil, Edebiyat ve Halkbilimi Araştırmaları Dergisi 5, 1-25.
• Hürriyet Gökdayı (2018), Türkçede Öbekler, İstanbul: Kriter Yayınevi.
• İlker Aydın (2004), “Türkçede Yan Tümce Türleri ve İşlevleri”, Dil Dergisi, 13 / 126, 29-55.
• Kamile İmer, Ahmet Kocaman, A. Sumru Özsoy (2011), Dilbilim Sözlüğü, İstanbul: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi.
• Leyla Karahan (2004), Türkçede Söz Dizimi, Ankara: Akçağ Yayınları.
• Nadir Engin Uzun (2000), Anaçizgileriyle Evrensel Dilbilgisi ve Türkçe, İstanbul: Multilingual Yayınları.
• Nadir Engin Uzun-Özgür Aydın (2006), “Sözdizim”, Dilbilim Temel Kavramlar Sorunlar Tartışmalar, Ankara: Dil Derneği Yayınları.
• Tahsin Banguoğlu (1990), Türkçenin Grameri, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu.
• Tuncay Bilir (2005), Zarf-fiil Ekleriyle Dönüştürülebilen Ki’li Cümleler, Ankara Üniversitesi / Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi, Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Lisans Tezi.
• Ümit Deniz Turan (2012), “Sözdizim, Tümce ve Tümcenin İç yapısı: Sözcük ve Öbekler, Temel ve Karmaşık Tümce Yapısı (Ünite 6, 7, 8)”, Genel Dilbilim-I, Eskişehir: Anadolu Üniversitesi Yayını No: 2378, Açıköğretim Fakültesi Yayını No: 1375.
• Zeynep Korkmaz (2003), Gramer Terimleri Sözlüğü, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları.

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ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
. 14 4
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 4
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 14 2
Midterm Exam 1 2
Final Exam 1 2
1 2
1 2
Total Workload
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