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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
DIL 6085	STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF TURKISH	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	8

Offered By

General Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR MURAT ÖZGEN

Offered to

General Linguistics

Course Objective

This course aims to provide a descriptive and explanatory overview of the grammatical phenomena of Turkish. It also aims to address the complex grammatical phenomena of Turkish individually and discuss them in relation to studies in the field.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	identify the complex syntactic structures of the Turkish Language (such as agreement, tense-aspect-modality etc.)
2	recognize the functions and the meanings of the complex syntactic structures such as nominalization, adjectival and adverbial clauses
3	identify the syntactic structures, meaning and functions of conditional sentences
4	develop an awareness of the meanings and functions of complex syntactic structures of Turkish
5	recognize the semantic and functional properties of complex syntactic constructions such as passivization, causativity, reflexivity and reciprocity
6	write a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical problems in Turkish grammar

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Introduction: General properties of Turkish
2	Turkish Case System - I: The General Case System of Turkish
3	Turkish Case System - II: Subject Case in Turkish
4	pro/PRO System in Turkish
5	Nominal Agreement System: GEN-POSS Agreement and Hierarchy in the Nominal Domain
6	Verbal Agreement System: Tense-Aspect-Modality, Person-Number
7	Voice: Causative, Passive, Active, Applicative, Reciprocal, Reflexive
8	Midterm
9	Negation & Negative Polarity/Concord Items
10	General Properties of Nominal Clauses
11	Adjunct Clauses - I: Adverbials
12	Adjunct Clauses - II: Relative Clauses
13	Information Structure & Word Order in Turkish
14	General Review
15	Final

Recomended or Required Reading

Kornfilt, J. (2013). Turkish. Routledge.
Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) 2013. WALS Online (v2020.4) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13950591 (Available online at https://wals.info, Accessed on 2025-08-05.)
Özgen, M. (2018). Formalist dilbilgisi kuramları. Pegem Akademi.

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	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE
3	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE	MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4	RST	RESIT
5	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)	MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes 1,2,3,4,5,will be evaluated via via homework assignment/Project

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 80% class attendance is obligatory.
2. Absence from classes will not be considered as an excuse for late submission of the homework assignments/projects.
3. Cheating and plagiarism attempts in assignments and exams will be evaluated with a '0' (zero) grade.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	14	3	42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	14	5	70
Preparation for midterm exam	1	15	15
Preparation for final exam	1	30	30
Preparing assignments	1	20	20
Preparing presentations	1	17	17
Final	1	3	3
Midterm	1	3	3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			200

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.5	PO.6
LO.1	5
LO.2	4
LO.3	4
LO.4	5
LO.5	4
LO.6	4

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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