COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COMPARATIVE SYNTAX

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
YTÖ 5002 COMPARATIVE SYNTAX ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Teaching Turkish As A Foreign Language

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR KUTHAN KAHRAMANTÜRK

Offered to

Teaching Turkish As A Foreign Language

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to enable the students to acquire the phrases and internal structure and functions of them; to acquire linguistic concepts affecting the syntactic structure such as tense, aspect, mood and specifity; to acquire the information structure of Turkish. Learning the phrase structure and subordination rules in Turkish in comparison with other languages (English).

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Ability to comprehend the phrases and internal structure and functions of Turkish.
2   Ability to comprehend linguistic concepts affecting the syntactic structure such as tense, aspect, mood and specifity.
3   Ability to comprehend the phrase structure and subordination rules in Turkish in comparison with other languages (English).
4   Ability to comprehend comparison method
5   Ability to have knowledge of syntax

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Structure of Sentences
2 Verb Phrase
3 Noun Phrase
4 Adjective Phrases
5 Adverb Phrases
6 Postpositional Phrases
7 Pronouns
8 Midterm Exam
9 Interrogative Sentences,Negation, Modifying the Negation Marker
10 Tense, Aspect, Mood
11 Defineteness, Specificity and General Reference
12 Subordination, Adjective Clause
13 Adverbial Clause, Conditional Clause
14 Word Order, Information Structure
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Erguvanlı, E.E. 1984. The Function of Word-Order in Turkish Grammar. Berkeley: University California Press.
Erkman-Akerson, F. ve Ozil, Ş. 1998. Türkçede Niteleme: Sıfat Işlevli Yantümceler. Istanbul: Simurg
Göksel A. ve C. Kerslake. 2005. Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar. London & New York: Routledge.
Kornfilt, J. 1997. Turkish. London & New York: Routledge.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Multimedia Explanation, question and response, discussion, research presentation, group work

Assessment Methods

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

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

dogan.gunay@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparation for midterm exam 1 9 9
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 60 60
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 192

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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