The matters on Turkish grammar terminology has been discussed for a long time. Due to the adopted attitudes on this process over one hundred years, many term matters somehow could not be solved and they have turned into research questions. One of the most important matters is terminological overabudabce. Although this matter was partly discussed in the past, it is not the “primary” agenda for Turkish language researchers today. It is aimed to bring up the matter to the agenda of science world and lead to discussions on the matter with this paper. First of all, the article will focus on terminological overabudabce. Taking into consideration the development of the terminology of Turkish grammar, it will then provide a brief account of the history of terminological overabudabce. Subsequently the reasons of terminological overabudabce and the problems it leads to will be discussed. Finally various recommendations as to solutions of this problem will be presented.

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Terminology, Turkish grammar, terminological overabudance, term.