NOTES TO SECOND PERSON IMPERATIVE FORMS IN MODERN TURKIC LANGUAGES
ÇAĞDAŞ TÜRK LEHÇELERİNDE İKİNCİ KİŞİ EMİR KİPİNE DAİR NOTLAR

Author : Mevlüt GÜLTEKİN
Number of pages : 531-541

Abstract

Imperative mode in the Turkic languages is one of the oldest finit forms which has been used since Old Turkic period and is used today. We study in our article 2. person imperative forms being used in modern Turkic languages and we only mention those forms documented in the historical Turkic languages. We try to bring all the imperative forms of second person singular and plural together and to investigate them morphologically, semantically and etymologically, wheras we exclude those of the other persons from the study because, we think, it would exceeds the borders of this article. Imperative forms of the second person express direct orders or prohabitions directed to addressee. The bare verb stems, namely those without any morphems added, form second person imperative singular in all the historical and modern Turkic languages. In order to emphasize an order/a prohibition directed to the second person singular, morphems such as in -GIl, -GIn -CI, -SAnA, are used widely, wheras morphems like -TAK, -tağı, -U, Tı, -GUr etc. are used rather limitedly. The morphems such as in–(I)N, -(I)Nız, -(I)NLAr, -(I)NIZLAR, -sINIz are used widely, to build second person plural, wheras forms like dı:z, -(I)ş, -zAGAr, -silA, -A:rIn etc. are used more limitedly.

Keywords

Imperative, morphology, modern Turkic languages, conjugation, mood

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