The Possessive, Determinative And Accusative In The Orkhun Inscriptions

The third person possesive suffix is one of the functional suffixes of Turkish language. Disagreement about form and functions of the suffix can not have been becoming yet. A consonant /n/ that is come into being in the course of time is employed the person suffix together with case ending have created foundation of disagreement. A consonant e.g. /n/ there is used between the possesive suffixes and case ending can be directly attached to possessive suffixes in the historical texts. This situation have caused confusion between the possesive suffixes and case ending The proposal of this study is to solve the problem by examining all over the samples of the possessive and accusative in the Orkhun İnscriptions (Kül Tigin and Tonyukuk 1-2). İn this way, it has been removed hesitation about relations of possessive-determinative-accusative.

Keywords

Orkhun İnscriptions, possessive suffix, accusative, determinative.