Descriptive Verbs in Kazakh
Author : Kerim Demirci
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 15,19 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Languages and Cultures
ISBN :
Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles
Author : Pierre-Yves Modicom
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027261466
Book Description
The articles collected in this volume offer new perspectives into the relevance of notions such as topic, antitopic, contrastive topic, focus, verum focus and theticity for the analysis of the syntax and semantics of modal particles, sentence-final particles and other medial, sentential and illocutive particles. This book addresses three great questions in a variety of languages ranging from Japanese to Mohawk, including Basque, French, German, Italian, Kazakh, Spanish and Turkish, with some insights from English and Russian. The first question is the role played by information-structural strategies such as left dislocations, clefts or the morphological marking of focus in the rise of discourse particles. In the second part, papers are concerned with the relevance of information structure for the study of polysemic and polyfunctional discourse particles. Finally, the contribution of particles to the determination of the information-structural profile of the clause is examined, as well as their role in the information-structural specification of illocutionary types. Language-specific papers alternate with comparative approaches in order to show how newer insights on information structure can help resolve some of the classical issues of the linguistic research on particles.
Kazakh
Author : Raikhangul Mukhamedova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1317573080
Book Description
Kazakh: A Comprehensive Grammar is the first thorough analysis of Kazakh to be published in English. The volume is systematically organized to enable users to find information quickly and easily, and provides a thorough understanding of Kazakh grammar, with special emphasis given to syntax. Features of this book include: descriptions of phonology, morphology and syntax; examples from contemporary usage; tables summarizing discussions, for reference; a bibliography of works relating to Kazakh. Kazakh: A Comprehensive Grammar reflects the richness of the language, focusing on spoken and written varieties in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. It is an essential purchase for all linguists and scholars interested in Kazakh or in Turkic languages as well as advanced learners of Kazakh.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN :
Book Description
Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Modality in Kazakh as Spoken in China
Author : Aynur Abish
Publisher : Harrassowitz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Frames (Linguistics)
ISBN : 9783447106269
Book Description
This is a comprehensive study on modality in one of the largest Turkic languages, Kazakh, as it is spoken in China. Kazakh is the official language of the Republic of Kazakhstan and is furthermore spoken by about one and a half million people in China in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and in Aksai Kazakh Autonomous County in the Gansu Province. The method employed is empirical, i.e. data-oriented. Modal expressions in Kazakh are analyzed in a theoretical framework essentially based on the works of Lars Johanson in which semantic notions of modality are defined from a functional and typological perspective. The modal categories volition, deontic and epistemic evaluation express attitudes towards the propositional content and are conveyed in Kazakh by grammaticalized moods, particles and lexical devices, treated in detail in this book. Plenty of examples of their different usages are provided with interlinear annotation. The Kazakh expressions are compared with corresponding ones used in other Turkic languages. Contact influences of Uyghur and Chinese are also dealt with. The Appendix contains nine texts recorded by Aynur Abish in 2010-2012, mostly in the northern regions of Xinjiang.
Kazakhstan
Author : Michael Fergus
Publisher : Stacey International
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Kazakhstan
ISBN : 1900988615
Book Description
"This comprehensive work, Kazakhstan, Coming of Age, places this remarkable country in that scene: its prospects, its history, geography, ways of life, ecology, economy and political structure, its astonishing cultural heritage." "Here is Kazakhstan in a work combining sound scholarship and research, written and assembled by experts, with over 400 photographs and many maps. It is the foundational work on the country, presented in the long-recognised Stacey International mould."--BOOK JACKET.
Relative Clause Contructions in Kazakh
Author : Ferhat Karabulut
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2003
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Turkic Languages in Contact
Author : Hendrik Boeschoten
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783447052122
Book Description
The volume contains contributions on contact-induced language change in situations in which one of the languages is a Turkic one. Most papers deal with cases of long-standing language contact. The geographic areas covered include the Balkans (Macedonian Turkish, Gagauz), Western Europe (Turkish-German, Turkish-Dutch contacts), Central Europe (Karaim), Turkey (Turkish-Kurdish, Turkish-Greek contacts, Old Ottoman Turkish), Iran (Turkic-Iranian contacts) and Siberia (Yakut-Tungusic contacts). The contributions focus on various phenomena of code interaction and on various types of structural changes in different contact settings. Several authors employ the Code Copying Model, which is presented in some detail in one of the articles.
Routledge Revivals: Turkic Oral Epic Poetry (1992)
Author : Karl Reichl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351123769
Book Description
Originally published in 1992, Turkic Oral Poetry provides an expert introduction to the oral epic traditions of the Turkic peoples of central Asia. The book seeks to remedy the problem of non-specialists’ lack of access to information on the Turkic traditions, and in the process, it provides scholars in various disciplines with material for comparative investigation. The book focuses on "central traditions" of this region, specifically those of the Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Karakalpak’s, and Kirghiz and looks at the historical and linguistic background to a survey of the earliest documents, portraits of the singers and of performance considerations of genre, story-patterns, and formulaic diction, and discussions of "composition in performance", memory, rhetoric and diffusion.
Ambiguous Verb Sequences in Transeurasian Languages and Beyond
Author : Éva Ágnes Csató
Publisher : Harrassowitz
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 2020-02-12
Category : Ambiguity
ISBN : 9783447113700
Book Description
Some sequences of verbs can display systematic ambiguities in meaning. Accent patterns are among the means for disambiguating them. The study based on presentations given at the 19th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL), held August 17-19, 2018, at Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, which was the first conference of this kind in Central Asia presents a comprehensive analysis of ambiguous verb sequences and ways of teasing them apart, an issue that has never before been addressed in the typological literature. It consists of seventeen contributions focusing on data from the Transeurasian languages Turkic, Japanese and Korean, and a Tungusic variety. The studies demonstrate strong typological similarities between these languages. The introductory chapter succinctly presents Lars Johanson's theoretical framework and terminology, which are applied by the authors. Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald reviews verb sequences from a broad typological perspective. Martine Robbeets studies the coincidence of intraterminal and postterminal readings in certain converb constructions across the Transeurasian languages. Ten papers deal with Turkic varieties such as Turkish dialects, a Volga-Turkic variety of the 17th century, Kazakh, Yakut, Dolgan, Siberian Turkic, Noghay, Salar, and Uyghur. Complex predicates are analyzed in an endangered Tungusic variety, Uilta (Orok). One chapter deals with Korean, and another with Fukuoka Japanese. The final contribution, on Ladakhi (a Tibetic language), demonstrates the broader areal distribution of ambiguous verb sequences.
