The syntax study of Peyami Safa's novel's: Canan

Language is the best communication way that helps sharing emotions and thoughts, because people express a situation better through language. It is possible to realize this by the structure and meaning integrity in syntax of language. This integrity can be revealed in the literary works in that language. Literary works acts as a mirror that show features about language and development of a language in time. Therefore it is benefitted from literary works in syntax studies generally. In this study, Peyami Safa's novel: Canan were examined in terms of their syntax. By analyzing these novel, this study aims to find out how word groups, sentence elements and sentence types are used in syntax of Turkish in literary work. In the study, in the novel mentioned, syntactic elements are examined and examples are given. The study consists of three parts: In the first chapter, information about word groups are given and these groups are shown with examples in the novel. In the second chapter, sentence parts are explained and sample sentences are given. In the third chapter, the sentence types are explained and examples from mentioned novel are given.