Abstract:

Old Uyghur has an important place in the field of historical Turkish language in terms of both linguistic features and vocabulary. The use of pronouns in this period is also noteworthy. The main function of pronouns is to represent persons and entities that come before or after them in various aspects such as question, indefinite and demonstrate. However, as a result of the use of pronouns with various suffixes, prepositions and enclitics in Old Uyghur, words and phrases were formed. One of these phrases is the repetitions formed by the repetition of words derived from pronoun roots. In Old Uyghur, some of the repetitions, which occurred by using the words consisting of demonstrative pronouns side by side, gained a lexical meaning separate from their original meanings as well as reinforcing the expression. In this study, repetitions of Old Uyghur ol and bu demonstrative pronouns were examined in the context of lexicalization. In the study, firstly, information about the concepts of reduplication and repetition is given, and then opinions about the theory of lexicalization are given. In the analysis section, the repetitions consisting of demonstrative pronouns were evaluated in terms of their structures and meanings, based on the sample sentences selected from the texts of the Old Uyghur period.

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