In linguistics, aspect is a temporal perspective that occurs in the sentence with different morphemes added to verbs. Besides being different from grammatical tense, it has a personal and subjective expression. It expresses how events or situations are spread over a period of time. In syntax, each clause has a different perspective on time. The concept of aspect is a category that interprets this perspective with its markers. Since language is a constantly changing system, these categories have been evaluated according to certain parameters. There are theories of appearance interpreted by many researchers from different perspectives. Among these theories, Lars Johanson analyzed aspect in three groups: inter-boundary aspect markers, boundary aspect markers, and post-boundary aspect markers. In this study, the aspect markers identified in the first 250 couplets of Yûsuf and Zelîhâ, one of the Old Anatolian Turkish works, are classified. This classification is based on Johanson's aspectual theory and it is shown with which morphemes the aspectual category is marked and in which contexts it comes to the fore. Based on Yûsuf and Zelîhâ, it is aimed to reveal the aspect markers used in Old Anatolian Turkish and their frequency of use.
Aspect, theories of aspect, aspect markers, Yûsuf and Zelîhâ, Lars Johanson.