Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Dilde Varyasyon, Emine Yılmaz,Nurettin Demir,Hasan Güzel, Editör, Erkmen Yayımcılık, Ankara, ss.65-82, 2025
The current study examines the syntactic structure of -mA and -mAK suffixes in Old Anatolian Turkish, which are referred as nominalizers in the literature, in comparison with Standard Turkish. First of all, the study focuses on the lexical function of verbal suffixes in Old Anatolian Turkish. Then, clause structures in which nominalizers fulfill syntactic functions are examined through the syntactic position possibilities of the clauses. It is understood that the suffixes -mA and -mAk differ significantly in terms of both lexical and syntactic nominalization functions in the texts of the Old Anatolian period. The fact that the -mAK suffix was used as a syntactic nominalizer in the Old Anatolian Turkish period contradicts the general opinion that the -mA suffix evolved into structures with the -mAK suffix. It is noteworthy that in the texts of the period, the general position possibilities of Standard Turkish -mA clauses are met by Old Anatolian -mAK clauses. On the other hand, -mAk clauses in Old Anatolian Turkish also show contradictory features in terms of their syntactic behavior (except for phonological alternations); while examining the differences between nominal clauses in question, it will be argued that clauses with the -mAK suffix are not uniform but have two different sub-variants, and the agreement patterns and possibilities of expressing act/fact will be examined as the basis of the above-mentioned assumption, e.g. sub-variation. That is to say, the agreement patterns, the possibilities of expressing act/fact, and the functional and formal distinctions in control structures form the basis for the assumption of two different -mAK clauses. As a result, it will be claimed that two subtypes of the -mAk nominalizer were used in the texts of the Old Anatolian period and that only one of these subtypes evolved into Standard Turkish -mA clauses.