There
is a conflict among the researchers on the present meaning and functions of the
suffix -sA which has survived from
ancient Turkish to the present day. Some researchers consider this suffix to be
a conditional mode when it does not express wish, while others consider it as a
gerund in terms of structure. In order to reach more informative information on
the subject, firstly, it has been tried to determine how the suffix -sA has been used since the past periods
of Turkish. While investigating this issue, it was understood that the use of
the suffix -sA should be considered
not only in simple but also in the compound conjugations. In particular, it was
found that the conjugation of certain past tense (-dI er-se) was used extensively in Eastern Turkish, but this
conjugation did not function as a mode but as a gerund. Therefore, in this
study, this structure with the suffix -sA
is attached, and the data collected from the texts selected from Eastern and
Western Turkish in the same period were compared and the meaning and function
of the structure was tried to be determined. These data were obtained from
texts translated from Eastern Turkish to Western Turkish or from Persian into
two languages in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Linguistics |
Journal Section | Linguistics |
Authors | |
Publication Date | December 25, 2019 |
Submission Date | November 17, 2019 |
Published in Issue | Year 2019 Volume: 4 Issue: 2 |