Abstract
This study examines the different patterns used to code complement clauses in Caucasian Urum, an endangered variety of Anatolian Turkish spoken in Georgia that exhibits considerable influence from Russian. Urum shows some substantial deviations from Turkish in its morphosyntax of complementation. The data indicate that primarily left-branching and synthetic Turkic patterns are replaced in favor of right-branching and analytic constructions. Furthermore, different classes of complement-taking predicates and their selectional restrictions on complement choice are analyzed and compared to the patterns in Turkish and Russian. The findings reveal that the Urum complementation system resembles the Russian pattern.
Acknowledgments
This article is part of the project “The impact of current transformational processes on language and ethnic identity: Urum and Pontic Greeks in Georgia” at the Bielefeld University – funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
Abbreviations
- 1, 2, 3
first, second, third person
- acc
accusative
- anom
action nominal
- comp
complementizer
- cop
copula
- dat
dative
- fnom
factive nominal
- gen
genitive
- hesit
hesitation
- inf
infinitive
- ipfv
imperfective
- loc
locative
- m
masculine
- n
neuter
- opt
optative
- pass
passive
- pf
perfect
- pl
plural
- poss
possessive
- pst
past
- sg
singular
- sub
subordinator
- subj
subjunctive
- .
separates items in multi-item glosses
- /
separates alternative glosses
- :
separates lexical and grammatical glosses
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Languages of the Caucasus and contact-induced language change
- The loss of case system in Ardeshen Laz and its morphosyntactic consequences
- The impact of language contact on Hinuq
- Complement clauses in Caucasian Urum
- The development of person agreement and the cliticization of personal pronouns in Batsbi
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Languages of the Caucasus and contact-induced language change
- The loss of case system in Ardeshen Laz and its morphosyntactic consequences
- The impact of language contact on Hinuq
- Complement clauses in Caucasian Urum
- The development of person agreement and the cliticization of personal pronouns in Batsbi