Abstract
TURKISH SENİ / SİZİ ADDRESSING WORDS AND A HISTORICAL VIEW OF VOCATIVE STATUS IN TURKISH
In this study, vocative status issue in Turkish has dealt with in context vocative encoder of seni/sizi and in a diachronic approach. Firstly, it has been determined that the typology of the vocative status has been generally marked by vocative intonation in Turkish, but the vocative status had been also marked by some morphemes in Old Turkic period, especially Uigur. These markings are as follows: 1- a / e, +A or ay / ey at the end of a word; 2- ay / ey or aya at the beginning of a word; 3- ay / ey at the beginning of a word and a / e or +A at the end of this word at the same time. It is not clear whether these vocative markers are morphemes produced by Turkish dynamics, or encoded from other languages in the Uighur period. In this context, seni / sizi that use syntactically in Turkish is remarkable. Here, the +i merpheme is not a possessive and also can not be encoder of accusative status. Therefore, the following possibilities can be considered for the +i morpheme: This morpheme, can be a trace of the +A encoded in Old Turkish; can be a remnant of one of the ä, äy or äyǟ encoded from Arabic; can be a remnant of the ey morpheme encoded from Persian; can be an altered form of any other morpheme encoded from another language. In this study, the result has been reached that Turkish seni/sizi emerged from sen ey and siz ey respectively.
Keywords
Turkish, morphology, syntax, pronoun, vocative status, etymology.