Comparative collocation analysis of Yūsuf ve Zelīḫā

The aim of this thesis study is to determine the collocations in the work named Yūsuf and Zelīḫā belonging to the Old Anatolian Turkish Period. The mathnawi of Yūsuf and Zelīḫā, written by Şeyyād Ḥamza, is worth examining in terms of having the characteristic features of Old Anatolian Turkish. In the first part of this thesis, the development of Old Anatolian Turkish and the works and writers of this period are mentioned. In the second part, the life of Şeyyād Ḥamza and the mathnawi of Yūsuf and Zelīḫā, which constitutes the sample of our thesis, are emphasized. In the third part of our thesis, theoretical information about collocation is given. In the fourth part; collocations formed with noun+noun, noun+verb, verb+verb, adjective+noun, adverb+verb, adverb+adjective patterns were examined in accordance with the mixed approach. In the formation of collocations, sometimes the criterion of significance and sometimes of frequency is decisive. The way to reveal all collocations in a text is to consider both significance and frequency criteria. In this direction, we preferred this approach because we found it more functional to use the mixed approach, which considers these two criteria together. In this thesis, the phrase "comparative" is included in the title, since other works of the period (Dede Korkut and Süheyl ü Nev-bahār) are also used, in addition to the main work, Yūsuf and Zelīḫā mathnawi. In the fifth part of our thesis, the Turkish equivalents of the collocations determined in Old Anatolian Turkish are shown with examples taken from the Turkish National Corpus (TUD). This thesis study has contributed to the collocation theme of Western Turkish within the framework of Old Anatolian Turkish.