Linguistics 188		Structure of Turkish

This is a course on the Structure of Turkish, including its
phonology, morphology, and syntax.  The work involves reading
several articles, the analysis of a number of short Turkish texts,
class discussions, several written assignments, and a term paper.

The topics covered, in rough order, are:

1.  Typology, geographical distribution, and history of the Turkic languages

2.  Phonetics and phonology of Modern Standard Turkish

3.  Morphology and the nature of agglutination

4.  Basic word order; discourse-conditioned alternative word orders

5.  Case system and agreement

6.  Nominal phrase structure

7.  Argument-structure changing transformations:
    Reflexive, Reciprocal, Passive, Causative

8.  Clausal complements

9.  Relative Clauses

10. Overview Morphology-Syntax interface

The final paper topic will need to be proposed by the 5th week of the
course, and a first draft submitted during the eighth week.  The final
version will be due at the end of the tenth week.