Abstract:

Pronouns are the words that substitute for objects either through pointing to them or taking place of them. Pronouns are meaningless when they are not used in a context but alone. They are not the names of objects but they substitute for them. They can be made interrelated to the nouns or noun phrases that come after them using possessive suffixes. Personal pronouns and demonstrative pronouns which were used in Chagatai Turkish are “min, sin, biz, siz” and “bu, ol” respectively. There is no third singular personal pronoun in Chagatai Turkish: the demonstrative pronoun “ol” is used in place of it. When personal pronouns take relative pronoun, they become “meniÆ / miniÆ; seniÆ/ siniÆ; bizniÆ, sizniÆ”, when demonstrative pronouns take relative pronoun, they become “munıÆ / munuÆ, anıÆ / alarnıÆ”. Among the criteria that a native language (mother-tongue) should have, apart from names of numbers, systems of numbers, names of body and organs, personal pronouns can also be counted. In this study, miniÆ, siniÆ and biziÆ which are the forms of personal pronouns and demonstrative pronouns which are one of the criteria that makes a language ‘a native language’ and which are used in Chagatai Turkish and anıÆ which is one of demonstrative pronouns and which can be used as personal pronoun and use of munuÆ with words which are attached to possessive suffix in a construction and its use with prepositions are examined by giving some samples of couplets from divan and masnavi of Ali Şîr Nevâyî and from divan of Hüseyin Baykara, who created some works in Chagatai Turkish.

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