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Turkish by Jaklin Kornfilt, provides a thorough and deeply analytic account of Turkish in general, and its morphology in particular. It makes one want to learn Turkish to better understand the complex interrelationships between morphology, semantics, and pragmatics. The thoroughness of the descriptions and analyses for Turkish also makes salient certain linguistic phenomena in other languages of the world--with regard to syntactic/morphological/pragmatic similarities as well as differences.