17 The verb in Northeastern Turkic
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Lars Johanson
Abstract
The chapter deals with the Turkic languages spoken in northern and southern Siberia. They constitute the Northeastern branch of the Turkic language family including Yakut and Dolgan in the North and Tuvan, Altay, Shor, Chulym, Dukhan, and a number of others in the South. A comprehensive account of the verb systems in their many facets is offered with the intention to give a comprehensive picture of the architecture of verbal morphology, its complexity, and the interdependence of the building blocks: verb classes, phase structures, word-building methods, actional modifications, aspect categories, and agreement morphology. The interpretation of a given verb form in an utterance results from the non-trivial interplay of all these levels. The authors make use of the typological framework presented for European languages in Johanson 2000a and 2023b, which provide a reference frame also for the description of Turkic grammaticalized categories in cross-linguistic perspectives. This enables a comparison of the Turkic categories to the categories of the contact Siberian languages.
Abstract
The chapter deals with the Turkic languages spoken in northern and southern Siberia. They constitute the Northeastern branch of the Turkic language family including Yakut and Dolgan in the North and Tuvan, Altay, Shor, Chulym, Dukhan, and a number of others in the South. A comprehensive account of the verb systems in their many facets is offered with the intention to give a comprehensive picture of the architecture of verbal morphology, its complexity, and the interdependence of the building blocks: verb classes, phase structures, word-building methods, actional modifications, aspect categories, and agreement morphology. The interpretation of a given verb form in an utterance results from the non-trivial interplay of all these levels. The authors make use of the typological framework presented for European languages in Johanson 2000a and 2023b, which provide a reference frame also for the description of Turkic grammaticalized categories in cross-linguistic perspectives. This enables a comparison of the Turkic categories to the categories of the contact Siberian languages.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Table of contents V
- List of Contributors IX
- Introduction XI
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Volume 2
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III Typology and morphosyntax
- 13 Northern Asia as a linguistic area 739
- 14 Vowel harmony in languages of northern Asia 767
- 15 Nominal inflection in the languages of Northern Asia 809
- 16 Verb indexing (“agreement”) in languages of northern Asia 869
- 17 The verb in Northeastern Turkic 919
- 18 Evidentiality in Northern Asia 1007
- 19 Complex predicates in North Asian languages 1065
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IV Socio-historical perspectives
- 20 Unclassified and poorly attested languages of Early Inner Asia 1123
- 21 Pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages in Northern Asia 1157
- 22 Language contact in northern Asia 1175
- 23 Language loss and endangerment in northern Asia 1211
- General Index 1233
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Table of contents V
- List of Contributors IX
- Introduction XI
-
Volume 2
-
III Typology and morphosyntax
- 13 Northern Asia as a linguistic area 739
- 14 Vowel harmony in languages of northern Asia 767
- 15 Nominal inflection in the languages of Northern Asia 809
- 16 Verb indexing (“agreement”) in languages of northern Asia 869
- 17 The verb in Northeastern Turkic 919
- 18 Evidentiality in Northern Asia 1007
- 19 Complex predicates in North Asian languages 1065
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IV Socio-historical perspectives
- 20 Unclassified and poorly attested languages of Early Inner Asia 1123
- 21 Pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages in Northern Asia 1157
- 22 Language contact in northern Asia 1175
- 23 Language loss and endangerment in northern Asia 1211
- General Index 1233
