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Chapter 32 - Word order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

F. Nihan Ketrez
F. Nihan Ketrez
Affiliation:
Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
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Summary

Word order variation

Turkish is a Subject-Object-Verb language as opposed to English, which is Subject-Verb-Object. In English, [you] [read] [a book]. In Turkish, [you] [a book] [read].

In English you have a relatively fixed word order, that is, you do not change the order of words in a sentence. In Turkish you can move the words around as long as they are marked properly with case markers that indicate their function (subject, location, direction, direct object etc.):

  1. Aylin bahçede kitabı okuyor.

  2. Aylin kitabı bahçede okuyor.

  3. Aylin okuyor bahçede kitabı.

  4. Aylin okuyor kitabı bahçede.

  5. Aylin bahçede okuyor kitabı.

  6. Aylin kitabı okuyor bahçede.

  7. Bahçede Aylin kitabı okuyor.

  8. Bahçede kitabı Aylin okuyor.

  9. Bahçede kitabı okuyor Aylin.

  10. Bahçede Aylin okuyor kitabı.

  11. Bahçede okuyor Aylin kitabı.

  12. Bahçede okuyor kitabı Aylin.

  13. Kitabı Aylin bahçede okuyor.

  14. Kitabı Aylin okuyor bahçede.

  15. Kitabı bahçede Aylin okuyor.

  16. Kitabı bahçede okuyor Aylin.

  17. Kitabı okuyor Aylin bahçede.

  18. Kitabı okuyor bahçede Aylin.

  19. Okuyor Aylin bahçede kitabı.

  20. Okuyor bahçede Aylin kitabı.

  21. Okuyor Aylin kitabı bahçede.

  22. Okuyor bahçede Aylin kitabı.

  23. Okuyor kitabı Aylin bahçede.

  24. Okuyor kitabı bahçede Aylin.

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A Student Grammar of Turkish , pp. 232 - 235
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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  • Word order
  • F. Nihan Ketrez, Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
  • Book: A Student Grammar of Turkish
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511667077.033
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  • Word order
  • F. Nihan Ketrez, Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
  • Book: A Student Grammar of Turkish
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511667077.033
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