Comparative Analysis of Turkish and English

Course content

An introduction to the contrastive analysis of Turkish and English. Comparing English and Turkish with respect to their phonetic, morphological, syntactic and semantics systems. Phonetics: Consonants and vowels; word stress. Syntax: the structure of the simple clause; phrase structure; embedding. Semantics: tense, aspect and modality in Turkish and English; the perfective and non-perfective aspect; epistemic and deontic modality.