Abstract:
Turkish is an inflected language, like Greek or Latin (or French, as far as verbs
are concerned). Unlike Greek and Latin, Turkish has only one way to decline a noun. Unlike French, Turkish has only one way to conjugate a verb.
Beyond mere inflexion, Turkish has manifold regular ways of building up complex
words from simple roots. Much Turkish grammar and vocabulary can be explained through morphology; but the explanation need not be cluttered up with many paradigms illustrating the several means to the same end.Turkish does, like Finnish, show regular spelling variations that correspond to
vowel harmony in speech.
