Celia Kerslake

Celia Kerslake
Born1946
London[3]
DiedFebruary 2023
Academic background
Education
Thesis"A Critical Edition and Translation of the Introductory Sections and the First Thirteen Chapters of the Selīmnāme of Celālzāde Muṣṭafā Çelebi" (1975)
Doctoral advisorRichard C. Repp[1]
Academic work
Institutions
Main interests
Notable worksTurkish: A Comprehensive Grammar (with Aslı Göksel)[2]

Celia Kerslake (1946–2023) was a British Turkologist. She was the University Lecturer in Turkish and a Fellow of St Antony's College at the University of Oxford (1988–2011). She is known as the author of Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar (2005) and Turkish: An Essential Grammar (2011), both written jointly with Aslı Göksel.

  1. ^ Goodman 2023b, p. 61.
  2. ^ According to an academic reviewer, "a quite outstanding presentation of practically everything one might wish to know about modern Turkish ... covering all structures in common usage, giving an enormous number of examples, and offering careful explication of difficult areas". Anonymous 2007, pp. 100–1.
  3. ^ Vaughan 2023, p. 66.