argumentlarini

Argumentlarını is the ASCII rendering of the Turkish term argümanlarını, the accusative form of argümanlar with a possessive suffix meaning “their arguments.” In Turkish, argüman means a reason or claim offered in support of a position, and argümanlarını denotes those arguments as the object of a verb.

Morphology and grammar

Turkish is agglutinative, attaching suffixes to a stem to modify meaning. The base noun argüman (argument) takes the plural suffix -lar to become argümanlar (arguments). The possessive suffix -ları marks possession by third-person plural (“their”), yielding argümanlar. The accusative suffix -ı, -i, -u, -ü marks the direct object; when combined with the proper vowel harmony, argümanlar +ını becomes argümanlarını in written form. Thus argümanlarını specifically means “their arguments” as a direct object in a sentence.

Usage

Argümanlarını appears in formal and analytic Turkish writing, debates, legal texts, and academic discourse. Examples include: Onların argümanlarını dinledik, ama bazıları geçerli değildi. (We listened to their arguments, but some were not valid.) Argümanlarını değerlendirmek için geniş veri setleri kullanıldı. (Extensive data sets were used to evaluate their arguments.) The parallel form argümanları (their arguments) marks the subject or object in non-accusative contexts.

Relation to related terms

Argümanları and argümanlarını are related to argüman (argument) and terms for evidence and reasoning in Turkish, such as kanıt (evidence) and sav (claim). In Turkish orthography, diacritics appear as argümanlarını; ASCII renderings like argumentlarini reflect the same morphology without diacritics.

See also: argüman, argümantasyon, kanıt, sav.