The appearance of Passive State of Affairs in Old Turkic and Modern Turkish

In this article, passivisation in Old Turkic and Modern Turkish, comparatively is studied within the framework of term-State of Affairs in Functional Grammar. In the eras that are examined in Turkish, It is seen that passivisation, spans a process where the [+control] feature in the State of Affairs designated by the predicate frames turns into [-control]. This change includes the [±telic] subtype and Position, Action, Accomplishment and Activity. The change of feature [+control] turn into [-control] as Presumption; the type of Position State of Affair as State, the Action type as Process and the change of the Accomplishment type as Change are also explained by stativization function of passivisation. Another finding from the corpus is that, the verbs that are passivised generally has the [experience] feature. In Old Turkic and Modern Turkish, passive utterance commonly occurs in the verbs that take the accusative case or absolute case morpheme and have the sementic role of Goal.