Cemile Uzun, PhD, is a lecturer at Firat University, Türkiye, where she also completed her BA, MA, and PhD degrees. Her doctoral dissertation focused on "O>U and U>O Sound Change in the Dialects of Turkish in Turkey”. Her research interests include foreign language teaching, lexicography, phonetics, morphology, artificial intelligence, and language technologies. She has published studies on vocabulary acquisition, readability, and AI–human text comparison, and actively contributes to international projects on digital linguistics.
This book offers a comprehensive examination of the syntactic structures of Turkish across its historical periods, from Old Turkish to Chagatai Turkish. Moving beyond traditional deillegalscriptive approaches, it applies dependency grammar and quantitative methods to reveal structural variation and diachronic change.
Drawing on carefully prepared corpora representing seven key stages of Turkish, the analysis addresses measures such as syntactic distance, nucleus–actant relations, bridge–node ratios, and structural centrality. Through computational models and natural language processing tools, it provides a systematic profile of how Turkish sentence structures have evolved over time. This perspective highlights not only formal and functional aspects but also the communicative and narrative needs that shaped expression in different periods.
The book sheds light on the formal and functional dimensions of Turkish syntax and builds a bridge between theoretical linguistics and the digital humanities. By introducing the GSM-4 model, it offers a reproducible framework for measuring syntactic complexity in historical texts. In this respect, the volume serves as an important resource not only for Turkologists and historical linguists but also for researchers in computational linguistics, language typology, and cognitive linguistics.
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Dependency Grammar: Theoretical Foundations
Chapter 3. Methodology
Chapter 4. Findings
Chapter 5. Conclusion
Chapter 6. GSM-4 model Proposal
Index
This book offers a comprehensive examination of the syntactic structures of Turkish across its historical periods, from Old Turkish to Chagatai Turkish. It serves as an important resource for Turkologists and historical linguists, researchers in computational linguistics, language typology, and cognitive linguistics.
