Locative Domain in Orkhun Turkic

Abstract

Orkhun Turkish is the language of the inscriptions engraved on stones in the coasts of Orkhun river in the 7th and 8th Centuries. In this paper, locative domain verbs and other related morphemes of Orkhun Turkish are analysed using Case Grammar Theory. The Case Grammar Theory is a semantic valence theory that determine logical form of a sentence through a predicate and case-labeled various arguments; Agent, Object, Location, Source, Goal. In linguistics usually is seen three type verbs: state, action and process verbs. In the Case Grammar Theory, these verbs are categorized according to the roles of the elements and the case framework exhibited. A case framework is the sequence of the cases where the semantic cases the proposition of the sentence or the meaning of the verb need by centralizing the verb. Thus it is necessary to detect limited semantic cases required by verbs. Each verb has a semantic domain that change according to different cases, which can also be determined as verb types. One of the semantic domains is the locative domain that include verbs of both stative location and directional location. Stative locative verbs usually require an object and a locative affix and they use case affixes. Directional locative verbs relate to process or process-action verbs which express movement from one location to another. Action locatives generally use directional affixes.