COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TURKISH MORPHOLOGY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIL 2034 TURKISH MORPHOLOGY COMPULSORY 2 1 0 6

Offered By

Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ÖZGÜN KOŞANER

Offered to

Course Objective

Aims to make students comprehend Turkish's features of flexion and production (aggligunating,using affix-root relations,being fusional etc.)comprehend word types and structures of subordinatives and sentences,easily seperate and define features of roots,suffixes and stems in Turkish by examining and reporting new word production/creating ways on different examples,discuss the root-suffix combinings and its results,find pure Turkish equivalents for borrowed words by using word production methods in Turkish.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Explain the moprhological structure of Turkish
2   Explain Turkish's features of flexion and production,word types and structures of subordinatives and sentences
3   Easily seperate the roots,suffixes and stems in Turkish
4   Produce/create new Turkish words
5   Evaluate and criticize a moprhological research on Turkish morphology.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Morphology in Turkish
2 Classification of morphemes in Turkish
3 Roots and affixes,handicaps in determining the moprhemes in Turkish
4 Syllable vs. morpheme structures in Turkish
5 Free and bound morphemes in Turkish
6 Word structures in Turkish
7 Derivational and inflectional suffixes in Turkish
8 Mid-term
9 Morpheme ordering in Turkish
10 Word-formation processes in Turkish
11 Grammatical categories in Turkish
12 Word classes in Turkish
13 Variations and morphemes in Turkish
14 Inflectional morphemes in subordinate clauses

Recomended or Required Reading

Adalı, O.(1978) Türkiye Türkçesinde Biçimbirimler. Ankara: TDK Yay.
Erguvanlı, E. E. (1984). The function of word order in Turkish grammar. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Demircan, Ö. (2005). Türkiye Türkçesinde Kök-Ek Bileşmeleri. Istanbul: Papatya Yay.
Kornfilt, J. (1997). Turkish. London: Routledge.
Langacker, R. W. (1972). Fundamentals of Linguistic Analysis. USA:H.B.J.
1. Özsoy, S. (1999). Türkçe: Turkish. Istanbul: Boğaziçi Universitesi Matbaası.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. 1- Lecture
2. 2- Presentation
3. 3- Question and answer
4. 4- Discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. 1- Learning outcomes 1,2,4,6 will be evaluated via the questions asked in the mid-term and final exams.
2. 2- Learning outcomes 3 and 5 will be evaluated via homework assignment/Project.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 1- 70% class attendance is obligatory.
2. 2- Absence from classes will not be considered as an excuse for late submission of the homework assignments/projects.
3. 3- Cheating and plagiarism attempts in assignments and exams will be evaluated with a 0 (zero) grade.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

LECT.DR. ÖZGE CAN 0232 301 86 33 FACULTY OF LETTERS DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS B BLOCK-4TH FLOOR 420

Office Hours


EVERY MONDAY : 12:00-12:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Tutorials 13 1 13
Preparation before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for Mid-term Exam 1 12 12
Preparation for Final Exam 1 14 14
Preparing Individual Assignments 1 16 16
Other 1 14 14
Final 1 1,5 2
Mid-term 1 1,5 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 151

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.155555
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.5555