Özet:
A sentence is defined on the basis of being a group of words with meaning that carry a judgment constituted around the terms of structure, form, unit, composition, series, statement, unity and wholeness. By the same token, the types of sentences are also determined according to their structure, meaning, type of predicates, junction and establishment.
While mentioning the nested compound sentences, which are defined structurally “as being formed when a sentence is placed into another sentence”, we talk of a situation whereby a sentence becomes element of another sentence or becomes a noun in that respective sentence (Ergin, 2004: 406). At this point, there comes the question of whether the inserted sentence will become a noun phrase or not. Dizdaroğlu (1976: 89, 92, 114, 128, 138, 160) states that the finite verbs can take the form of noun phrases as adverbial clauses, direct or indirect objects and location impliers. On the other hand, Deny (2012: 684) stresses the fact that in the possessive constructions the genitive element can either be a sentence or a direct phrase, and since an indirect phrase can be defined as a word, it can take a possessive or case suffix. Moreover, besides the syntax structures, some argue that the exclamation phrases can be considered as sentences because they express emotion or excitement. Nonetheless, in some sources exclamation phrases are considered as sentences in terms of their meaning.
Due to the limits of this study, on the basis of the problematic question of “Does a sentence’s character as an element of another sentences make it a nominalized sentence?” some examples are examined in possessive constructions and adjective clauses, adverbial clauses and some exclamation phrases such as “Allah korusun”, and some internal phrases such as “Eh, davul dengi denginedir hesabı kendi gibi yoksul bir kızla evlendirmişler”. These structures are discussed in the study on the question of whether they can be considered as nominalized sentences or not.
