On the compound sentences with ki in Envârü’l Hikem

Abstract

The compound sentences with ki in the work "Envârü'l Hikem" registered at number 11876 in Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences Abu Reyhan Al-Biruni Orientalism Institute Manuscript Library are examined in this article. This prosaic work, which was written between 16th and 17th centuries with Eastern Turkish and belongs to the post-Classical period of Chagatai Turkish, consists of a total of 165 wisdoms. In the study, first of all, a brief introduction of the work, language features and expressions applied for the concretization of the narrative were included; then the compound sentences with ki were examined in detail. These sentences; classified according to the situation of the auxiliary sentence(s) in the main sentence and attention was drawn to the preferred modal suffixes in the examples where the auxiliary sentence(s) was a direct element of the main sentence. The structure with kerek ki as a result of the use of the expression of necessity in the description and explanation sentences is another issue which is examined.