Çuvaş Türkçesinde söyleme fiilleri
Özet
This thesis aims to investigate the verbs of speaking in Chuvash Turkish from semantic and pragmatic viewpoints. As it is widely known in the relevant literature, Proto-Turkish is divided into two branches: Proto-Ogur and Proto-Oguz, based on the distinction of the phonemes /-z-, -z/ with / -r-, -r/, and / -s-, -s/ with / -l-, -l/. In this branching, the only remaining representative of the Ogur branch is Chuvash Turkish, which plays a significant role among Turkish dialects. In the first part of the thesis, Fillmore's approach to Frame Semantics, chosen to determine the divergent aspects of verbs of speaking, is presented in a general manner. Then, we focused on pragmatic issues since communication environment shaped by the verbs of speaking are to be analyzed. In the second part, the verbs of speaking in the earliest and original written texts of the Oguz branch are examined to make a comparison. In addition, these verbs of speaking are presented in terms of their distributions within the historical and modern Turkish dialects. Later, a semantic and pragmatic analysis of the verbs of speaking with the examples obtained from the corpus are analyzed, and any differences of the verbs of speaking situated in the same framework are aimed to be exemplified. In the third and main part of the thesis, a semantic-syntactic analysis of the verbs of speaking in Chuvash Turkish is carried out according to Fillmore's model of Frame Semantics among the examples taken from the selected corpus. Consequently, the communication environment shaped by the verbs of speaking in Chuvash Turkish is also investigated from a pragmatic point of view, and the obtained results are explicated.