Akademik Dersler - İçerik

Weeks	Topics
Week - 1	Naming the periods of Turkish (the issue of the classification of Karahanid Turkish and Mamluk Turkish; Anatolian dialects, Turkish dialects, Anatolian-Rumelian dialects, etc.)
Week - 2	The variability of the criteria used in the classification of Turkish languages and dialects.
Week - 3	The debate on Turkish dialects or Turkic languages. Turkish and Turkic concepts
Week - 4	Relations between Turkology and linguistics
Week - 5	Common alphabet of the Turkic world, transcription letters used for historical and contemporary Turkic writing languages. Reading problems arising from the alphabets used in historical texts.
Week - 6	Constantly changing spelling rules, inconsistencies in the spelling of foreign proper and genus names
Week - 7	Using different concepts for the same event (infinitive; noun-verb, noun-verb; auxiliary sound, auxiliary consonant, connection consonant, fusion consonant etc.; small vowel harmony, flatness-roundness harmony, lip harmony; big vowel harmony, backness-frontness harmony)
Week - 8	Ways to derive new words
Week - 9	Derived (made up) words contrary to Turkish rules: tanı “diagnosis”, öykü “story”, mutlu “happy”, toplum “society”, doğal “natural”, nesnel “objective”, yerel “local”, egemen “sovereign” etc.
Week - 10	Journals using different citation and bibliography systems in scientific publications; journals for or against the use of footnotes, etc.
Week - 11	Different approaches to grammar topics (sentences, verbs, compound sentences, etc.)
Week - 12	Problematic verb conjugations (yazarım “I write” but yazmam “I don’t write”; yazarız “We write” but yazmayız “we don’t write”; confusion of first persons imperative and subjunctive mood)
Week - 13	Problems created by the diachronic or synchronic explanation of words (problems arising from the old form of the indicative case: şu+n+u, su+y+u; bahçe+nin but ne+y+in)
Week - 14	Final exam