The inverted word order is a stylistic marker in Turkish language, indicating that inversion of sentence elements occurs in contextually and stylistically marked situations. This paper examines contextual situations where the inversion of components of the first genitive case is applied. The analysis is based on examples found in the novels Masumiy...

By Edina Solak, Mirza Bašić, Azra Livadić

In the grammatical structure of the Turkish language, the ablative case suffix can also in certain contexts express causation. Thus, causative adverbial phrases can be derived by adding the ablative case suffix to noun phrases formed during the process of nominalization by transforming the initial clauses with finite predicates, where the function ...

By Edina Solak, Mirza Bašić, Amina Hadžimejlić

The correct comprehension and understanding of the grammatical structure of phrasemes is a complex issue imposed on non-native speakers of theTurkish language who study grammatical structures of modern Turkish language. The aim of this paper is to analyze the grammatical structure of nominal somatic phrasemes in modern Turkish language. The analysi...

By Edina Solak, Mirza Bašić, Selma Čusto

This paper analyzes morphological and semantic characteristics of postpositions, conjunctions and interjections in the philological encyclopedia Dîvânü Lügâti’t-Türk by Mahmud al-Kashgari. The analysis of grammatical and semantic structures of postpositions, conjunctions and interjections is based on an analytical and descriptive research method an...

By Edina Solak, Mirza Bašić