https://doi.org/10.36719/2663-4619/109/41-47
Ilhama Babanli
Baku State University
babanliilhama@gmail.com
The Indicative Mood of the Verb in the Epic “Book of Dede Gorgud”
Abstract
As in other sources of our linguistic history, the epic “Book of Dede Gorgud” contains all the verb moods that express the subject’s attitude toward reality. It is precisely in this epic that the foundations of our modern grammar can be traced. In this article, we have aimed to explore the historical roots of the indicative mood of the verb and examine its traces in both our literary language and dialects. Throughout the epic, we observed that verbs are conjugated with tense, person, and number suffixes, and we compared their similarities and differences with our modern literary language.
Keywords: epic, verb, tenses, mood forms, suffixes