교착어의 서술어부 구조 고찰

A Study of the Structure of Predicates in Agglutinative Languages With a Focus on the Turkish and the Azerbaijani

The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the terms and concepts associated with the predicates in the school grammars of the Turkish and the Azerbaijani, and to check the validity of zero suffix and copula in the description of predicates of the two languages. In summary, Both Turkish and Azerbaijani appear to have zero suffixes and copula in the structures of their predicates. Also there is no room for setting mixed category in their grammars. In conclusion, I hope that this paper, in raising some questions as well as answering some, has revealed the necessity for more systematic analyses on the structure of the predicates in both Turkish and Azerbaijani within a perspective not determined by categories of the Indo-European languages.