Delimitation Functions in Turkmen Turkish Established with Prepositions and Verbal Adverbs

Abstract

It is said that inflected prepositions does not play an independent role in Turkish and consequently cannot be an element of the sentence alone. Some of the grammarians categorize the prepositions in the sentence as names, adjectives and adverbs, while some grammarians have examined grammatical prepositions in terms of subject, complement and predicate tasks. Prepositional complements that are in a simple state or formed by taking one of the suffixes add various meanings to the sentence such as limitation, time, measure, quantity, approximation, and sometimes limit the meaning of the predicate in terms of time. In this study, the restriction function of these structures in Turkmen Turkish is discussed. Some prepositions and adverb-verb suffixes also have the function of limiting in the sentence. There are very few studies examining the restriction function of these structures in Turkish. Restriction structures in Turkmen Turkish; The limitation of time in terms of starting point, limiting time in terms of end point, limiting it by emphasizing or comparing the elements it points to, limiting structures established with adverb-verb affixes are examined under four main headings. Delimitation structures can be made with certain language structures. Constraint function structures established in four different ways are made with the help of state suffixes, adverb-verb affixes, and conjugation prepositions. In Turkmen Turkish, structures established by limiting the starting point with the case suffixes and the ending point with the inflectional prepositions are used more frequently than others. The starting point is mostly limited by the adverbial-verb affixes and conjugation prepositions. In conjugation prepositions, the +dAn state suffix of structures is the only case suffix that limits the time in terms of the starting point.