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Week - 1
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Naming the periods of Turkish (the issue of the classification of Karahanid Turkish and Mamluk Turkish; Anatolian dialects, Turkish dialects, Anatolian-Rumelian dialects, etc.) |
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Week - 2
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The variability of the criteria used in the classification of Turkish languages and dialects. |
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Week - 3
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The debate on Turkish dialects or Turkic languages. Turkish and Turkic concepts |
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Week - 4
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Relations between Turkology and linguistics |
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Week - 5
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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. |
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Week - 6
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Constantly changing spelling rules, inconsistencies in the spelling of foreign proper and genus names |
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Week - 7
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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) |
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Week - 8
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Ways to derive new words |
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Week - 9
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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. |
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Week - 10
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Journals using different citation and bibliography systems in scientific publications; journals for or against the use of footnotes, etc. |
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Week - 11
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Different approaches to grammar topics (sentences, verbs, compound sentences, etc.) |
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Week - 12
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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) |
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Week - 13
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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) |
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Week - 14
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Final exam |
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