TÜRKÇE ve SÜMERCEDE EK EYLEM
THE PREDICATIVE VERB IN TURKİSH AND SUMERIAN

Summary/Abstract: In Turkish, some suffixes specifying a person are used to make noun clauses. These suffixes are called as noun verb suffixes, predicative verb or ore verb in Turkish. Predicative verb that is used for the third person is called the indicative suffix. A structure quite similar to these structures is encountered in Sumerian, which is known with its agglutinative language structure. Some word equivalencies between Sumerian and Turkish have been previously investigated. In Sumerian, the verb me 'to be' was added by suffixation to create a noun clause, it indicated possessive and it was used as an predicative verb. In this study, examples of the use of predicative verbs in two different languages were identified and examined. It was seen that there are structural similarities besides semantic similarities in both languages. Studies comparing Sumerian and Turkish languages have been done before. However, these studies remained within the framework of Word equivalence. Such studies of the structural working of the two languages may help to increase the accuracy of judgments between possible relations of these languages.

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