Abstract:

Verbs are the type of words that express real-world occurrences and situations in the language depending on the mood, tense and person. Together with nouns, it forms one of the two building blocks in language. There is a verb in the language for every occurrence and behavior that exists in the real world and is perceived by human beings. This includes Turkish. As far as it can be followed from the first written texts, Turkish has a large group of verbs due to the active lifestyle of the Turks. The fact that Turkish has an agglutinative structure and has almost no verbs from other world languages has also been effective in this. In this respect, many researches have been done in Turkish about the verb structures that show their own characteristics. However, besides the studies on the structural features of Turkish verbs, studies on their conceptual fields are not sufficient. For this reason, in this study, the Köl Tigin, Bilge Kağan and Tunyukuk Inscriptions, which are among the most voluminous texts of Köktürk, the first known written language of Turkish, were examined in terms of the concept of elephants. For the concept area analysis, the war concept area depending on the main area of the struggle was chosen in accordance with the dominant content of the inscriptions. The verbs identified in the inscriptions related to this concept area were evaluated according to their structure and usage characteristics, especially meaning. As a result of the evaluation, it is seen that most of the verbs in the Köl Tigin, Bilge Kagan and Tunyukuk Inscriptions are related to the concept of war. Intensive processing of verbs in Köktürk, which is the known first written language of Turkish, also constitutes one of the most important indicators of the richness of that language.

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