A Review on Hamdullah Hamdi’s Divan in terms of Case Morphemes

Language constitutes the basic material of literature which is saving of experiences in human life and the conveyer of societies’ word existence besides forming system of understandings among people, too. Difference of the levels of use, development, understanding and transfer of the language has brought with the variety of methods and opportunities in the language, too. Morpheme is accepted as the smallest part – which is conveyer of meaning – of a language. Case morphemes can be introduced as affixes which correspond the cases of names on the point of establishing the temporary meaning connections between names and verbs in the sentence. These morphemes which have taken their part in literary texts of every era of our language right from the first Turkish texts have had an effect upon literary works and accordingly on language with various semantic contributions. To view pieces of poem from the viewpoint of their additional uses besides their frequencies of word presents us important data in terms of both morphemes and features of wording. Hamdullah Hamdî is an important milestone of the era in consequence of being the son of a scholar father like Akşemseddin, who has branded on the era, besides writing first important mesnevi of Yusuf u Züleyha in our literature. In this study, the case morphemes which has taken place in the Divan of Hamdullah Hamdi who is accepted as an important personality of mesnevi field of his era have been reviewed and examples which belong to case morphemic uses have been presented. The poet has tried to reflect these uses which are of expression opportunities of the language in his poems by combining with the opportunities of the literary perception in which he has been. The language material which we have presented will be able to give ideas about the related era and following eras in Hamdi’s personality.

Keywords

Hamdullah Hamdî, morpheme, syntax, semantic relation, 16th century literary texts