Sentences in Gazavat-ı Sultan Murad b. Mehemmed Han

ABSTRACT "Sentences in Gazavât-ı Sultân Murâd b. Mehemmed Hân" Yeter TORUN Master Thesis, Turkish Language and Literature Department Supervisor : Doç. Dr. Mehmet ÖZMEN Year : 2000, XII + 241 In this study we tried to analyze an anonymous gazavatname which shows the qualifications of Old Anatolian Turkish and Ottoman Turkish. After searching information sources about sentences structure, we organized by Gazavatname's sentences according to their structure, meaning, verb choice, and the order of sentences members. Analyzing their structure, we divided the sentences into two main parts; one of them is simple sentence and the other is compound sentence. We could define 156 simple and 470 compound sentences in Gazavatname When we analyzed the simple sentences, we found that these were made up short sentences; however, we also found some long- simple sentences which contain adverb- verb groups. Out of 470 compound sentences; 9 of them are condition, 29 of them are sequenced, 84 of them depended claused, 38 of them are with conjunction "ki", 25 of them are claused, 1 of them is "saplamalı" and 284 of them are complex - compound sentences. The qualification of compound sentences are five of the conditional sentences don't contain condition meaning, two of the sentences are depended on an adverbial clause. Sequenced - compound sentences are made up at least two and four sentences at most. Depended - compound sentences consist as least IIItwo simple sentences and five at most - "ve" (and) is the most used adverbial in these sentences. In the 20 of the sentences made up with "ki" the depended clause is the member of the clause logically; in the 13 of them it is used as an adjective of the main clause. In 21 of the claused (compound) sentences, the depended - clause is made up one sentence, in 4 of them it is made up more than one depended - clause. One of 284 complex compound sentence 80 Per cent of them show the sings of "ki'1 compounding. Both in noun-sentences and in verb-sentences, affirmative sentences are mostly used in Gazavatname. The verbal sentences are made negative by using -ma affix, "değil" (not), and ne...ne (neither...nor) statements; meanwhile, nominal -sentences are made negative by just using "değil" (not). Verb-sentences are more than noun-sentences in Gazavatname Because of the narration way verb-sentences are mostly in defined past tense (simple past tense) in this text. Also in noun-sentences the tense of auxiliary mostly in Simple Present and Simple Past. When we divide the sentences according to member sequencing, the normal sequenced sentences are more. In non-normal sequenced sentences which are rarely used are found in poem-like parts and in dialogue sentences. Key Words : Language, sentence, the compound sentence, meaning, Gazavatname. IV