THE POWER OF TURKISH
JOHAN VANDEWALLE'S VIEWS ON THE TURKISH LANGUAGE
"...I believe that a native speaker of Turkish thinks in short sentences, and during speech, connects these short sentences through various means to build complex structures. This 'tendency to connect sentences' may be weak in some speakers, while in others it can be so strong that it becomes almost like a compulsion. In the latter case, the resulting linguistic structures beautifully reflect the advanced capabilities of the human mind. Although I have studied many languages from different language families, I can say that I have never encountered a structure in any other language that fascinates me as much as the complex sentence structures in Turkish.
If you allow me to be a bit sentimental, I sometimes say to myself, 'I wish Chomsky had learned Turkish in his youth...' I'm sure that, in that case, modern linguistics would have been shaped not according to English, but according to Turkish."
