The Routledge Introduction to Literary Ottoman

247 Pages·2009·15.251 MB·English

by  Korkut Bugday

The Routledge Introduction to
Literary Ottoman
Korkut Bug˘ day
Translated by Jerold C. Frakes
The Routledge Introduction to
Literary Ottoman
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The Routledge Introduction to
Literary Ottoman
Korkut Bugday
Translated by Jerold C. Frakes
11 Routledge
g^ Taylor & Francis Croup
LONDON AND NEW YORK
First published 1999 in German as Osmanisch-Lehrbuch. Einfuhrung in die
Grundlagen der Litemtursprache by Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. KG,
Kreuzberger Ring 7 b-d, 65205 Wiesbaden, Germany
English translation as The Routledge Introduction to Literary Ottoman first
published 2009
by Routledge
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The Routledge Introduction to Literary Ottoman English language translation
© 2009 Jerold Frakes
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bugday, Korkut M.
[Osmanisch. English]
Introduction to literary Ottoman / Korkut Bugday ; translated by Jerold C.
Frakes.
p. cm.
Turkish language - Textbooks for foreign speakers - German. 2. Turkish
language - Grammar. I. Title.
PL127.5.G4B84132009
494'.3582431-dc22
2008053201
ISBN10: 0^115-49338-2 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0^115-49438-9 (pbk)
ISBN10: 0-203-87599-0 (ebk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-49338-3 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-49438-0 (pbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-87599-5 (ebk)

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Table of Contents
Foreword xiii
Introduction
xv
Translator's Preface xvii
Symbols and Abbreviations xix
Chapter 1 1
1.1 Script and alphabet 1
1.1.1 Vowel signs (ḥharekat tتiAاك£رj=ح.) and other markings 3
1.2 The pronunciation of the letters 3
1.3 Ligatures and handwriting 5
Exercises 5
Chapter 2 10
2.1 The representation of vowels in words of Turkic origin 10
2.2 On transcription 10
2.2.1 The transcription of ا,و, andى 11

2.2.2 Plene and defective orthography 11
2.3 On the pronunciation and transcription of vowels in words of Persian and Arabic origin 11
2.4 Rules for writing hemze 12
2.5 Numerals 13
Exercises 13
Chapter3 15
3.1 Vowel harmony 15
3.2 Consonant harmony 15
3.3. General information on word order, articles, gender, plural formation, case, nominative case 15
3.4 Dative case 16
3.5 Accusative case 16
3.6 Locative case 16
3.7 Imperative mood 16
3.8 Cardinal numbers (Turkish) 1-10 17
3.9 Possessive suffix of 3rd person singular 17
3.10 mif-past tense 18
3.11 Aorist tense 18
3.12 Converbs in -üib, -ken, -erek, and ü (gerunds) 19
3.13 Verb formation with etmek/ eylemek 19
3.14 The izafet construction 19
Text: A ḪHṣoca Nasreddiīn Tale: "A Dream" 20
Vocabulary 20
Exercises 20
Chapter 4 22
4.1 Infinitive in -mek 22
4.2 Genitive case 22
4.3 Ablative case 22
4.4 Demonstrative pronouns 22
4.5 Personal pronouns and personal inflections 23
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4.6 Interrogatives ne, kirn, nere 24
4.7 Participles in -en 24
4.8 The formative -li 25
4.9 The formative -dir 25
4.10 The compound suffix -dikde 25
Text: A ḪHṣīoca Nasreddm Tale: "The Broth of the Broth of the Hare" 25
Vocabulary .' 26
Exercises 26
Chapter 5 27
5.1 Instrumental case 27
5.2 Expressing to have 27
5.3 Adverbials in-ce 27
5.4 Perfect tense 27
5.5 Present tense in->w , 28
5.6 The compound suffix -yordi 29
5.7 The compound suffix -°rdi 29
5.8 Negation in -me- (and لكد değil) 29
5.9 The abilitative: expressing can/to be able 30
5.10 Verbal nouns in-dik 30
5.11 The short infinitive 31
5.12 Intensification through reduplication 31
Text: "The Woman and the Hen" 31
Vocabulary 31
Exercises 32
Chapter 6 33
6.1 Cardinal numbers (Turkish) 33
6.2 Personal pronouns in all cases 33
6.3 Possessive inflection 34
6.4 Verbal nouns in -ecek 34
6.5 Relative clauses with verbal nouns in -dik and -ecek 34
6.6 Declarative content clauses ('that'-clauses) 35
6.7 The formation -dikden ṣsonra 35
6.8 Past perfect (pluperfect) tense in -mifdi 35
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6.9 The necessitative 35
6.10 Converbs in-e and -/' 36
6.11 The formation -mek üzere 36
6.12 Comparative and superlative formation 36
6.13 Causatives in -t 37
6.14 Adverbial formation with the Arabic accusative 37
Text: "The Fable of the Lion, the Fox, and the Donkey" 37
Vocabulary 38
Exercises 38
Chapter? 39
7.1 The generic genitive construction 39
7.2 Future tense 39
7.3 Conditional mood 39
7.4 Optative mood 41
7.5 Converbs in-ince 41
7.6 The formation -digği gibi 41
7.7 Infinitives with dative inflection 41
7.8 Interrogative particle 42
7.9 Causatives in-ir 42
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7.10 Conjunctional -de as suffix 42
7.11 Persian plural inflection 42
Text:"TheStoryofAliJinghisI" 42
Vocabulary 43
Exercises 45
Chapter 8 46
8.1 The abbreviated accusative 46
8.2 Passive and reflexive voice 46
8.3 Auxiliary verb to be 46
8.4 Compound verb tenses 47
8.5 The suffix -hi 48
8.6 The particles -kirn and -ki 48
8.7 The formative -le 48
8.8 The Arabic article 48
Text: "The Story of Ali Jinghis II" 49
Vocabulary 49
Exercises 50
Chapter 9 51
9.1. The izafet construction 51
9.1.1 Genitive compounds with izafet 51
9.1.2 Attributive connections with izafet 51
9.1.3 Arabic adjectives in the izafet formation 52
9.1.4 The extension of the simple (two-member) izafet formation 53
9.1.5 The izafet -i as a component of several borrowed words 53
9.2 Hemze as the sign of accusative 53
9.3 The Persian formative -f 54
9.4 Pronunciation of ve 54
9.5 The compound suffixes -dikce and -mekle 54
Text: "The Abolition of the Janissary Corps" 54
Vocabulary 55
Exercises 57
Chapter 10 58
10.1 The equative 58
10.2 The formative -°?ş 58
10.3 The formative -le in combination with -°n, -°,yş, -°t 58
10.4 The 'occupational'-suffix -ci 59
10.5 Formations in -meksizin 59
10.6 Repetition of words 59
10.7 The Persian formative elements -ḥhāaāāne, -gah, -name, and -her 59
10.8 Arabic genders 59
Text: "A European Journey: I. On Traveling in Europe and Choosing a Hotel" 60
Vocabulary 61
Exercises 62
Chapter 11 63
11.1 Word roots in Arabic 63
11.2 Arabic participles and verbal nouns; the stem-forms ('derived' verbal forms) 63
11.3 Regular plurals in Arabic 66
11.4 The formative -lik 68
11.5 The formative -leyin 68
Text: "A European Journey. II. Hotel Room and First Impressions of Berlin" 68