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The study is related to the origin of the preposition ötürü and the distribution areas of the prepositons of ötrü and ötürü. It is said that ötürü comes from ötrü in Old Turkic in many sources. But I think that ötürü in Turkey Turkish should have come from ötgürü in Old Turkic. In fact, Marcel Erdal had said that the prepositon ötürü in the Turkey Turkish was direclty related to ötgürü in Old Turkic long before. However it seems that this explanation has been neglected in the etimology studies. That is why the primary goal of the article is to make a reminder of this issue. The second aim in this study is to question whether there is a pattern in the distribution of prepositions ötrü, ötgürü>ötürü between the Turkic languages. As a result, the distribution of these prepositions between the Turkish dialects is found to be meaningful. In a very general sense, ötürü and ötrü is more common among the Oghuz dialects. More specifically, it was determined that ötürü is widely used to in western Oghuz dialects, ötrü is used in eastern Oghuz dialects. Ötürü is not seen in the Kipchak dialects at all, but ötrü is only found in Kipchak dialects in which there are many Oghuz language influences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ahmedî is one of the poets and authors who lived in 16th century Beylics Period. His real name differs in sources. Based on Taceddin İbrahim bin Hızır, some sources state that his name is İbrahim, his nickname is Taceddin and his father's name is Hızır. Despite the struggle between the beylics in 14th and 15th centuries, the poets and the artists were patronised. Ahmedî is one of the poets who were patronised as well. It is also mentioned in sources that following his primary education, Ahmedî went to Egypt and furthered his education there. In addition to this, sources also state that leaving Egypt, Ahmedî initiated to Germiyan Bey Suleyman Shah and they were close friends. For this, it can be said that he presented most of his works to Emir Suleyman. He presented İskendernâme, by making additions to it and the mesnevis names Cemşîd ü Hurşîd ile Tervihü'l-Ervâh later on. Apart from the author's works which were presented to Emir Suleyman, he also has works named Dîvân, Esrâr-nâme Çevirisi, Mirkatü'l-Edeb. Ahmedî's language reflects the phonetic features of his age. It is believed that his works are notewrothy in observing the phonetic features of the Old Anatolian Turkish. It is necessary to approach to the works of the era with different perspectives so as to trace the historic periods of the Turkish written (literary) language. Thus we believe that in order to understand the phonetic features of the Anatolian Turkish, it will be valid to study Ahmedî's work. Above all, the importance of the continuous studies on the authors and their works both in the period of their emergence and the ones who affected the latter periods in a direct or indirect way is obvious. As Ahmedî is one of the important poets of the 14th century, there have been numerous studies on him. These studies are mostly about his life and literary career. The aim of this study is to secure a better understanding of the phonetic features of Old Anatolian Turkish. Firstly, information on Ahmedî and his works will be presented and following this, phonetic features of the period will be explained and analysed by practice on the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Labial Harmony occurs when an unrounded vowel in the first syllable is followed by unrounded vowels or when a rounded vowel in the first syllable is followed by narrow rounded or unrounded wide vowels. Labial Harmony doesn't have the tendency of levelling in the periods of Turkish language and its other areas. Although there was general labial harmony apart from exceptions in the old Turkish period, this harmony was destroyed and it was nearly disappeared in old Oghuz Turkish. In this period, some affixations were permanently unrounded or some of them were permanently rounded. After The Oghuz Turkish period, there was no complete labial harmony in most part of The Ottoman Turkish. Labial Harmony was enabled systematically in the period of passing from Oghuz Turkish to Turkey Turkish, that is, in the late Ottoman Turkish. In this study, Kitab al-Malhama, written in the 16th century, will be assessed in terms of labial harmony. This text reflecting Oghuz Turkish period is different from The Old Oghuz Turkish especially in terms of labial harmony. This difference is seen in the word bases which reflects passing harmony and affixes. Word base and affixes will be studied within the frame of labialization and delabialization. Taking into consideration the situation of word bases and affixes in The Old Oghuz Turkish, their images in the text will be assessed so that a conclusion about the development of labial harmony in this period will be presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents an investigation of language understanding within the framework of receptive multilingualism. That Turkish and Azerbaijani are closely related languages within the Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages leads to the assumption that Turkish and Azerbaijani are mutually intelligible languages. That is, speakers of these two different languages of Turkic origin can comprehend each other without much difficulty. This article aims to consider whether these languages are, in fact, as mutually intelligible as estimated, especially on the part of the Turkish speakers. In other words, within the framework of this study, the focus is on how well Turkish speakers understand written and spoken Azerbaijani. In addition, the study asks whether there is any risk of understanding failure on the part of Turkish speakers and, if yes, it will examine the grounds of such understanding failure. The results of this study in which 30 Turkish participants took part show that even though Turkish and Azerbaijani are typologically similar languages, on the part of Turkish speakers the intelligibility is not as high as is estimated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents a study which investigated the syntactic valency of the verbs in "The Book of Dede Korkut (Kitab-i Dede Korkut)" diachronically. The verbs whose valency shows differences in comparison to Modern Oghuz languages, or the facts of Modern Turkish and Modern Azerbaijani, are listed. It also explains the reasons for the corresponding diachronic changes.

The article discusses the metaphorical uses of disease terminology in the Turkic dialects of the Oghuz group in Turkic language. The author relies on the work of literary theorist Susan Sontag and the attention paid by linguists to disease terminology that re-conceptualized the body in terms of a republic or a unified commonwealth. Attention is given to the terms for plague, cholera, typhoid, consumption/tuberculosis, malaria/fever, cancer, and the flu. The metaphorical language for these terms is a result of the fear of pronouncing them due to their impact on human life.

The article discusses the idea of the semantic field and the expression of time in language. The author analyzes The Moving Time Metaphor and The Moving Observer Metaphor in Turkish language dialects of the Oguz group, including Turkmen Turkish, Turkey Turkish, and Azerbaijan Turkish, presenting and analyzing sentences using the expression of time. Other topics addressed include other time metaphors such as the Time is Matter metaphor and scholarship on time metaphors by authors including George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Ronald Langacker.

The purpose of this paper is to study Vowel Harmony in Turkish, a member of Oghuz languages and, like other Turkic languages, known for having this phonetic characteristics. Using the necessary linguistic data, the author of the paper has tried to evaluate the present-day situation of VH in Turkish and to present the related phonological rules which permit its operation in Turkish. In other words, the author has tried to do a synchronic study on VH in this language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses the metaphorical use of verbs in the Oghuz language. Elements of grammar expressed by verbs are called processes. Linguist M.A.K. Halliday classified processes into categories such as the material process for action verbs and the mental process for perception verbs. A study by linguist G. K. Kuliyev semantically classifies Turkish verbs but includes the metaphorical usage of verbs as indicative meanings. In the Turkish dialects of the Oghuz group, some action verbs of the material process are metaphorized to be used in mental processes and processes describing affection.