Gramatical index of Figani Dewan

Figani was one of the poets who worked in the classical Turkish literature. Figani was an artist who was capable of the poetic language, who had rich imagination, who could easily use proverbs and phrases, who let simple Turkish words in his works, who had new invention, imagery, and new concepts as much as Dewan literature allowed. Figani who lived in XVI. century has remained attached to the Dewan literature in terms of both form and content features. XV-XVI. centuries were also the period in which Oghuz Turkish based language that had been used since XIII. century had become standardized. This semester is important in terms of examination of grammatical features of written texts and showing the historical development of writing language as well as finding the solutions of some of the issues that create problems today for Turkish of Turkey. The aim of this study is to reveal the existence of the words of Figani Dewan that were written according to the tradition of Ottoman Dewan literature in XVI. century. It is also aimed to supply evidence of status and frequency of use of inflections in Anatolian Turkish in XVI. century. In this study, grammatical index of Figani Dewan was conducted. First, poems were classified according to the type of Dewan by giving number of each poem; then couplets in the poems were also numbered. Afterwards, words in the Dewan were scanned; those words with both simple and inflection forms were arranged in alphabetical order with code numbers of poets and couplets. At this stage, first simple form of the words were shown with their poet and couplet numbers as per article; then inflection form of the words were given again along with poet and couplet numbers as per article. With this study, both existence of the words of Figani Dewan that were written according to the tradition of Ottoman Dewan literature in XVI. century was introduced and that era`s Turkish morphological features were shown along with examples KEYWORDS: Figani, Dewan, Dewan Poems, Index.