Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi

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One of the most important figures of Kazakh literature is Ahmet Baytursınulı, he is known for his scientific life rather than literary one. He wrote the first work introducing Kazakh literature, adapting the Arabic alphabet to Kazakh phonetics, he also wrote books for schools and the first grammar of Kazakh, the Til Qural. Til Qural written by Baytursınulı is a first for the Kazakh grammar field. Baytursınulı thought that Kazakh youth, who had been raised according to Nogai and Russian grammatical rules until then. They should know the rules of Kazakh, for this reason wrote this work. His work was published in three volumes, and it has been printed many times until our days. It has been a source for modern Kazakh grammars. Today, the terms produced by Baytursınulı are used in contemporary Kazakh Turkish grammars. Ahmet Baytursınulı mentioned almost all grammatical issues in Til Qural. One of these issues is the voice issue. Baytursınulı meets the voice term with the term etis. It mentions a total of ten voices, including the transitive, intransitive, reciprocal voice, reflexive, ergative, causative voice, passive voice, reciprocal-ergative voice, recurrence voice, and intensification voice. Baytursıulı is defines these voices and gives examples of these voices. Contemporary Kazakh grammars have also committed the voice issue in detail. This issue was being handled and some voices mentioned by Baytursınulı were not included in this category. However, some new terms that are not in Til Qural are emphasized and the subject is examined in more detail. In this study, the voice chapter in Ahmet Baytursınulı's grammar named Til Qural will be compared with contemporary Kazakh grammars similarities and different aspects are shown as well.