PRONOUNS OF OZ AND BILE IN SOUTH AZERBAIJANI

The expression of reflexivity in the Turkic language is usually reported via reflexive pronouns or suffixes added to verbs such as -(X)n similar to -(X)l. In the historical periods of the Turkic language, words of oz and kentu (>kendu>kendi) is mainly used as reflexive pronouns. These words co-existed together in the Old Oghuz Turkic with similar functions. Later, in the dialects developed from the Old Oghuz Turkic, there was a separation on the boundaries of the self-pronouns. The pronoun of oz was used in Azerbaijani field; and the pronoun of kendi (self) was used in Turkey (Ottoman) field. In the South Azerbaijani, the word of oz is used as a function of reflexive pronoun. In addition to this, oz has reinforcement, personal pronoun and adjective functions. In some dialects of South Azerbaijani, words of bile similar to bele similar to bele are also used in the feature of pronoun. Bile in the category of pronoun fulfills only the function of a personal pronoun. Bile can only be used as a personal pronoun function with possessive suffixes and some case suffixes or with inflectional suffixes. Bile does not have the functions of reflexivity, reinforcement and adjective.