Abstract
USE OF LOCATIVE CASE SUFFIXES /+DA/ AND /+ø/ IN NOUN CLAUSES IN TURKISH LANGUAGE
The noun case, which is a linguistic category that links nouns to words –verbs, nouns and prepositions– that follow, besides being categorized in various ways in current Turkish of Turkey, generally it has been dealt under 9 sub-categories, as nominative, genitive, accusative, dative, ablative, locative, instrumental, equality and showing direction, and these noun cases have been supplied by one or more affixes.
Locative case, which links nouns to words –verbs, nouns– that follow in Turkish, has been supplied by two different affixes: +DA and +ø. +DA locative case links nouns to verbs and nouns with functions like being in a place, at a time, in a case. However, +ø locative case can be said to be used rather with the function of being at a time in Turkish.
+DA and +ø locative case affixes’, which link time nouns to verbs that follow basically with the function of being at a time, situations of being used in time nouns that are in the structure of a word or word group might change. While, in some, both of the affixes may be used, in others, only one of the +DA or +ø affixes can be used. In this research, in which types of time nouns +DA or +ø locative case affixes can be used is tried to be presented.
Related usage will be determined by scanning written texts which have colloquial language features in the internet environment, and it will be presented to readers’ attention by tabulating the data under which situations and circumstances these determined structures are used with which locative case. Thus, the contexts that contain structures in which locative case affixes take place will shed a light for better teaching of the topic to researchers and teachers of teaching these structures. Therefore, it is expected this research to contribute to the teaching of Turkish both as a mother tongue and as a foreign language.
Keywords
Noun cases in Turkish language, nouns refering time, locative case
