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Atebetü’l-Hakayık’ta Algı Fiilleri
Perception Verbs in Atebetü’l-Hakayık

Author(s): Hüseyin Yildiz
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Islam studies, Lexis, Semantics, Turkish Literature
Published by: Karadeniz Araştırmaları Merkezi
Keywords: Karakhanid Turkish; Atebet al-Hakayık; mental verbs; perception verbs;

Summary/Abstract: Atebet al-Hakayık was written in Karakhanid by Edib Ahmet Yüknekî, which is placed in the first Turco-Islamic period’s literary works. It is a didactic-poetic work having religious and mystical scope. One of the sub-groups of mental verbs examined by linguists in various aspects is the perception verbs. In various sources, the terms perception verbs, sensory perception verbs and sensation verbs are used and the classifications on the perception verbs, which are also discussed under cognitive verbs from time to time, are generally based on essential ‘five sense’. Several studies are conducted on different languages by various researchers such as Viberg, Levin, Sweetser, framenet, IbarretxeAntuñano, González Orta, Gunnarsdóttir, Blendae and so on and on Turkish by Kuliev, Yaylagül, Kamchybekova, Şahin, Seçkin, Ayan and Türkdil, Gökçe, Yıldız and so on. In this study, the perception verbs that can be found in Atebet al-Hakayık written by Edib Ahmet Yükneki will be discussed in five different groups: eye, ear, nose, taste and contact verbs. The verbs will be classified in these groups and be analyzed by showing in related context, depending on example sentences. So that, the intelligence and ideas of the author and his era will be tried to be understood through a religious-sufistic content.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 60
  • Page Range: 163-181
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Turkish