The Routledge Introduction to Literary Ottoman

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This represents the first modern introduction to literary Ottoman available in English. The author has devised this textbook to provide a course of lessons, readings and exercises to take the student from beginner to intermediate level. The book features numerous readings taken from historiography, historical, literary, journalistic and legal sources from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. This will be an essential tool for Ottomanists and other scholars in a broad range of academic disciplines that include Ottoman history and literature, language, art, music and architecture of the former empire. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Foreword Introduction Translator's Preface Symbols and Abbreviations Chapter 1 1.1 Script and alphabet 1.1.1 Vowel signs (ḥarekāt حرکات) and other markings 1.2 The pronunciation of the letters 1.3 Ligatures and handwriting Exercises Chapter 2 2.1 The representation of vowels in words of Turkic origin 2.2 On transcription 2.2.1 The transcription of و ,ا, and ى 2.2.2 Plene and defective orthography 2.3 On the pronunciation and transcription of vowels in words of Persian and Arabic origin 2.4 Rules for writing hemze 2.5 Numerals Exercises Chapter 3 3.1 Vowel harmony 3.2 Consonant harmony 3.3. General information on word order, articles, gender, plural formation, case, nominative case 3.4 Dative case 3.5 Accusative case 3.6 Locative case 3.7 Imperative mood 3.8 Cardinal numbers (Turkish) 1–10 3.9 Possessive suffix of 3rd person singular 3.10 miş-past tense 3.11 Aorist tense 3.12 Converbs in -üb, -ken, -erek, and -ü (gerunds) 3.13 Verb formation with ėtmek / eylemek 3.14 The izafet construction Text: A Ḫoca Naṣreddīn Tale: "A Dream" Vocabulary Exercises Chapter 4 4.1 Infinitive in -mek 4.2 Genitive case 4.3 Ablative case 4.4 Demonstrative pronouns 4.5 Personal pronouns and personal inflections 4.6 Interrogatives ne, kim, nere 4.7 Participles in -en 4.8 The formative -li 4.9 The formative -dir 4.10 The compound suffix -dikde Text: A Ḫoca Naṣreddīn Tale: "The Broth of the Broth of the Hare" Vocabulary Exercises Chapter 5 5.1 Instrumental case 5.2 Expressing to have 5.3 Adverbials in -ce 5.4 Perfect tense 5.5 Present tense in -yor 5.6 The compound suffix - yordi 5.7 The compound suffix - °rdi 5.8 Negation in -me- (and دكل değil) 5.9 The abilitative: expressing can/to be able 5.10 Verbal nouns in-dik 5.11 The short infinitive 5.12 Intensification through reduplication Text: "The Woman and the Hen" Vocabulary Exercises Chapter 6 6.1 Cardinal numbers (Turkish) 6.2 Personal pronouns in all cases 6.3 Possessive inflection 6.4 Verbal nouns in -ecek 6.5 Relative clauses with verbal nouns in -dik and -ecek 6.6 Declarative content clauses ('that'-clauses) 6.7 The formation -dikden ṣoñra 6.8 Past perfect (pluperfect) tense in -mişdi 6.9 The necessitative 6.10 Converbs in-e and -i 6.11 The formation -mek üzere 6.12 Comparative and superlative formation 6.13 Causatives in -t 6.14 Adverbial formation with the Arabic accusative Text: "The Fable of the Lion, the Fox, and the Donkey" Vocabulary Exercises Chapter 7 7.1 The generic genitive construction 7.2 Future tense 7.3 Conditional mood 7.4 Optative mood 7.5 Converbs in -ince 7.6 The formation -diği gibi 7.7 Infinitives with dative inflection 7.8 Interrogative particle 7.9 Causatives in -ir 7.10 Conjunctional -de as suffix 7.11 Persian plural inflection Text:"The Story of Ali Jinghis I" Vocabulary Exercises Chapter 8 8.1 The abbreviated accusative 8.2 Passive and reflexive voice 8.3 Auxiliary verb to be 8.4 Compound verb tenses 8.5 The suffix -ki 8.6 The particles -kim and -ki 8.7 The formative -le 8.8 The Arabic article Text: "The Story of Ali Jinghis II" Vocabulary Exercises Chapter 9 9.1. The izafet construction 9.1.1 Genitive compounds with izafet 9.1.2 Attributive connections with izafet 9.1.3 Arabic adjectives in the izafet formation 9.1.4 The extension of the simple (two-member) izafet formation 9.1.5 The izafet -i as a component of several borrowed words 9.2 Hemze as the sign of accusative 9.3 The Persian formative -ī. 9.4 Pronunciation of ve 9.5 The compound suffixes -dikce and -mekle Text: "The Abolition of the Janissary Corps" Vocabulary Exercises Chapter 10 10.1 The equative 10.2 The formative -°ş 10.3 The formative -le in combination with - °n, - °ş, - °t 10.4 The 'occupational'-suffix -ci 10.5 Formations in -meksizin 10.6 Repetition of words 10.7 The Persian formative elements - ḫāne, -gāh, -nāme, and -ber 10.8 Arabic genders Text: "A European Journey: I. On Traveling in Europe and Choosing a Hotel" Vocabulary Exercises Chapter 11 11.1 Word roots in Arabic 11.2 Arabic participles and verbal nouns; the stem-forms ('derived' verbal forms) 11.3 Regular plurals in Arabic 11.4 The formative -lik 11.5 The formative -leyin Text: "A European Journey. II. Hotel Room and First Impressions of Berlin" Vocabulary Exercises Chapter 12 12.1 Causal clauses with infinitive and instrumental 12.2 The Persian suffix -çe 12.3 On plural formation in Arabic 12.3.1 Arabic 'broken' plural formation 12.4 The nisbe-ending Text: "Description of Vienna I" Vocabulary Exercises Chapter 13 13.1 Participles and verbal nouns in 'weak' Arabic verbs 13.1.1 Verbs with initial radical vāv/ye (verba primae vāv/ye) 13.1.2 Hollow verbs (verbs with medial radical vāv/ye; verba mediae vāv/ye) 13.1.3 Weak-lām verbs (verbs with final radical vāv/ye; verba tertiae vāv/ye 13.1.4 Phonological rules in the formation of 'weak' verbs 13.1.5 Geminate verbs (verbs with doubled medial radical; verba mediae geminatae) 13.1.6 Consonant assimilation in stem VIII Text: "Description of Vienna II" Vocabulary Exercises Chapter 14 14.1 Declension of Arabic nouns 14.2 Determination and nunation of Arabic nouns 14.3 Adjectives in Arabic 14.4 Arabic enclitic pronouns 14.5 Arabic genitive constructions 14.6 Prepositions and the particles ke-, le-, and fe- 14.7 Arabic demonstrative pronouns Text: "Charter/Deed of Alliance" Vocabulary Exercises Chapter 15 15.1 The names of the months and days of the week 15.2 Arabic semantic formulae and idioms 15.3 Persian past tense 15.4 Persian personal and demonstrative pronouns Text: "Events in the Capital" Text: "The Death of Sultan Murād Khan" Vocabulary Exercises Chapter 16 16.1 The Arabic perfective 16.2 The Arabic dual of substantives 16.3 Arabic verbal and nominal clauses 16.4 Nominal clauses with inne and enne and other introductory elements 16.5 Arabic personal pronouns 16.6 The 'five nouns' in Arabic 16.7 The Arabic vocative 16.8 Arabic interrogatives 16.9 The Arabic nomen actoris Text: "Legends of 'Abdī Dede" Vocabulary Exercises Chapter 17 17.1 Arabic cardinal numbers 17.2 Converbs in -icek 17.3 The present stem in Persian 17.4 Nominal compounds Text: "A Story of the Sultan's Vizier" Vocabulary Exercises Chapter 18 18.1 Arabic ordinal numbers 18.2 Arabic comparative and superlative 18.3 The perfective in irregular verbs of stem I 18.4 The perfective in stems II-VIII and X 18.5 Negation of the perfective 18.6 Arabic relative clauses 18.7 The formation -diği içün Text: "The Aṣāf-nāme of Vizier Luṭfī Pasha" Vocabulary Exercises Chapter 19 19.1 Persian numbers 19.2 Persian prepositions 19.3 The direct object in Persian 19.4 The enclitic personal pronoun in Persian 19.5 Persian participles 19.6 Nouns of time, place, and instrument (nomina loci et temporis and nomina instrumenti) Text: "The Conclusion of the Story of Sultan Murād" Text: "Sultan Meḥmed's Accession to the Throne" Vocabulary Exercises Chapter 20 20.1 The Arabic imperfective 20.1.1 The imperfective indicative of 'weak' verbs of stem I 20.1.2 The imperfective indicative in stems II-VIII and X 20.1.3 Negation of the imperfective 20.1.4 The Arabic subjunctive and jussive moods 20.2 The Arabic imperative mood 20.3 The Arabic future tense 20.4 The Arabic passive voice 20.5 Functions of the Arabic accusative case 20.6 The Persian comparative and superlative Text: "A Description of the Stages of Sültan Suleyman Khan's Iraq Campaign" Vocabulary Exercises Persian formative elements (a selection) Selective bibliography Index of grammatical terms A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Key to the exercises Glossary