Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Trakya Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, cilt.15, sa.30, ss.297-318, 2025 (TRDizin)
Relative clauses, as being fundamentally a topic of morpho-syntax studies, are structures in which the trace of the deleted argument in the subordinate clause is relativised with the head noun. Although Standard Turkish relative clause structures have been extensively studied in modern syntactic and semantic research, Old Anatolian Turkish relative clause structures have been limited to semantic studies until recent times. The current study aims to examine the historical development of these clauses by subjecting Old Anatolian Turkish relative clauses to morphosyntactic analysis. For this reason, it compares the clause structures of the period with their Standard Turkish equivalents. Although the clauses in Old Anatolian Turkish are mainly discussed in the study based on the subject/object clause distinction, issues such as agreement patterns and relativized gaps in subordinate clauses are also included in the analysis. Accordingly, it is noteworthy that Old Anatolian Turkish relative clauses behave differently from Standard Turkish, especially in terms of the classification of the participle suffixes functioning to establish the above-mentioned clause types and the ability to fill the obligatory gap in the clause.