%0 Journal Article
%T On The Origins of the Turkic 3sg Possessive Suffix and the pronominal /N/
%A OR£¿UN ¨¹NAL
%J -
%D 2019
%X Since the earliest written records of Turkic, when the 3sg possessive suffix is attached with an inflectional or derivational suffix, the so-called pronominal /n/ appears between these two suffixes. In Turkic, a similar /n/ sound is also observed in inflected forms of personal and demonstrative pronouns. The recent studies have shown that in few instances the pronominal /n/ also appears in the nominative case. The purpose of this study is to investigate the origins of the 3sg possessive suffix and the pronominal /n/ based on these findings. First of all, the origins of Turkic possessive suffixes has been questioned and it is revealed that these suffixes are formed through the suffixation of the personal pronouns attached with *+(X)n, which had the function of a genitive in Proto-Turkic. Then, the possible influence of the possessive prefixes in the Yeniseian languages on the historical development of the 2sg possessive suffix is emphasized. It is concluded that the pronominal /n/ is the archaic genitive suffix *+(X)n attached to the 3sg possessive suffix. The same suffix evolved to the instrumental suffix on nouns and to the accusative suffix on possessive suffixes in Old Turkic. The unstable consonant of the Old Turkic genitive suffix +(n)X£¿ is a relic of the same suffix as well
%K Eski T¨¹rk£¿e
%K Proto-T¨¹rk£¿e
%K Proto-Yeniseyce
%K iyelik eki
%K pronominal /n/
%K ilgi durumu
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/ataunitaed/issue/43122/522444