Plural, Possessive and Interrogative Suffixes in Salir Turkish and Turkmen Turkish Cover Image

Salir Türkçesi Ve Türkmen Türkçesinde Çokluk, İyelik Ve Soru Ekleri
Plural, Possessive and Interrogative Suffixes in Salir Turkish and Turkmen Turkish

Author(s): Ersin Teres
Subject(s): Morphology, Lexis, Pragmatics, Comparative Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi
Keywords: Plural suffixes; possessive suffixes; interrogative suffixes; comparison; Salır Turkish;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to explain the similarities and differences between plural, possessive and interrogative suffixes in Salir Turkish that is one of nine groups of Turkish people living in China and Turkmen Turkish that is the eastern part of Oghuz dialect of Turkish. In this context, plural, possessive and interrogative suffixes are identified by making use of published texts of both dialects and compared the similarities and differences of noun inflections in terms of form and function. As a result of this study, the similarities which we acquired corroborate the view that Salir Turkish is a dialect belong to Oghuz group of Turkish.

  • Issue Year: 17/2011
  • Issue No: 66
  • Page Range: 95-104
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Turkish