Abstract
A RESEARCH ON THE VOCABULARY OF AHMET HAMDI TANPINAR'S “19. ASIR TÜRK EDEBİYATI TARİHİ”
The aim of this study is to describe the use of literary language in the period when the work was written by determining the vocabulary in Tanpınar's work titled "19th Century Turkish Literature History". This study was structured with qualitative research methods, and descriptive analysis was one of the qualitative research methods deployed in the study. As a result of this study, the total number of words in Tanpınar's 19th Century Turkish Literature History was found to be 157,578, and the number of words per article was 9,725; 11,202 of these words were proper names, among which 1020 and 1035 of them were determined to be personal names and names of pieces respectively, the rest were names of places, languages, organizations, events, and wars. Moreover, 37,750 nouns, 1,051 verbs, and 11,659 conjunctions were used in the work and both of the Turkish and Arabic/Persian synonyms of 417 words were used together as well. It was also observed that conjunctions such as "and", "with", and "too" were mostly used in the analyzed work, whereas words such as "poetry, work, time" were frequently included as a reflection of Tanpınar's literary direction. While several Arabic-derived words that are not frequently used in Turkey's Turkish are included in the work, it has been observed that their synonymous such as âti (1), istikbâl (12), ikbal (31) were used in the work as well.
Keywords
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, History of 19th Century Turkish literature, vocabulary, frequency of use, lexi