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- Csató, Éva Ágnes, 1948-, et al.
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Clause Chaining in Turkic
- 2024
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In: <em>Clause-chaining in the languages of the world</em>. - Oxford : Oxford University Press.
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In all its known periods of development, Turkic has employed chain clauses. They are complex sentences that contain a chain of subordinate clauses which with respect to their thematic-narrative status are equal to the base predication. All non-final predications of the chain have specific non-finite verb forms, converbs, with reduced inflection as predicate cores. Fully inflected is only the sentence-final finite predication, which serves as the base predication of the chain. Non-final nonfinite predicates can also function as base for clause chains. Such clause types have wide distribution in the languages of the world, for instance, in Uralic, the Semitic languages of Ethiopia, in Papuan languages as demonstrated in this volume. In Turkic, there is a great difference between written and spoken varieties. In spoken varieties clause chains are typical of narrative discourse types. Written Turkic varieties are products of special developments, in which the basic structural principles of the languages can be exploited to the utmost, as for example in written Ottoman Turkish. Examples of clause chains will be given in this paper from different varieties of Turkic, written and close-to-spoken varieties.In modern standard languages, the use of this type is strongly reduced as a result of “Europeanization” tendencies. The employment of the typical Ottoman recursive chain clause came to an abrupt end in the 19th century, during the Tanzimat era, under the influence of French prose. In Eastern Turkic written languages clause chaining diminished through Russian influence, but certain discourse types such as historical narratives still prefer the use of this syntactic device.
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The Turkic Languages
- 2022. - 2nd ed.
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Turkic languages are spoken today in a vast geographical area stretching from southern Iran to the Arctic Ocean and from the Balkans to the great wall of China. There are currently 20 literary languages in the group, the most important among them being Turkish with over 70 million speakers; other major languages covered include Azeri, Bashkir, Chuvash, Gagauz, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Noghay, Tatar, Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut, Yellow Uyghur and languages of Iran and South Siberia.The Turkic Languages is a reference book which brings together detailed discussions of the historical development and specialized linguistic structures and features of the languages in the Turkic family. Seen from a linguistic typology point of view, Turkic languages are particularly interesting because of their astonishing morphosyntactic regularity, their vast geographical distribution, and their great stability over time.This volume builds upon a work which has already become a defining classic of Turkic language study. The present, thoroughly revised edition updates and augments those authoritative accounts and reflects recent and ongoing developments in the languages themselves, as well as our further enhanced understanding of the relations and patterns of influence between them. The result is the fruit of decades-long experience in the teaching of the Turkic languages, their philology and literature, and also of a wealth of new insights into the linguistic phenomena and cultural interactions defining their development and use, both historically and in the present day.Each chapter combines modern linguistic analysis with traditional historical linguistics; a uniform structure allows for easy typological comparison between the individual languages. Written by an international team of experts, The Turkic Languages will be invaluable to students and researchers within linguistics, Turcology, and Near Eastern and Oriental Studies.Lars Johanson, one of the world’s leading Turcologists, was born and educated at Uppsala University in Sweden. He is professor of Turcology at the University of Mainz, Germany. He has published widely on descriptive and historical linguistics, mostly focusing on the Turkic language family. His book Turkic (2021) presents his pioneering contributions to Turkic linguistics and language typology. He edits the journal Turkic Languages and the monograph series “Turcologica”.Éva Á. Csató, born in Hungary, is professor em. in Turkic languages at Uppsala University, Sweden. She studied linguistics and Turcology at the University of Oslo. Her research interests include Turkic linguistics, syntactic typology, contact linguistics, documentation, and revitalization of endangered Turkic languages. She has published over 100 articles and edited more than 10 volumes on different Turkic linguistic topics. She is in the editorial board of the journal Turkic Languages.
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- Csató, Éva Ágnes, Professor emerita, 1948-
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Karaim and Balkar translation of Le petit prince (The little prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 2021
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In: Journal of Endangered Languages. - 2148-130X. ; 11, s. 442-449
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this book review the Karaim and Karachay-Balkar translations of Antoine de Saint- Exupéry’s The Little Prince are presented. The German publisher Edition Tintenfaß focuses on bringing out books and translations non-standard language variations and minority and endangered languages. The Karaim translation Kiči bijčiek by Halina Kobeckaitė and Karina Firkavičiūtė was published in 2018 and the Balkar translation Özd’än žaščïḳ by Magomet Gekki in 2020. At the end of the book review some linguistic comments are provided.
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- Johanson, Lars, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. 1936-, et al.
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On the Turkish mnemonic past : An evidential category
- 2021
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In: Altaic and Chaghatay Lectures. - Szeged : University of Szeged. - 9789633067932 ; , s. 255-262
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study argues that in Turkish the combination of the terminal base in {-DỊ} with the copula particle ‹i|di› has undergone a specific grammaticalization process resulting in a typologically rare type of evidential marker, a mnemonic past.
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- Csató, Éva Ágnes, 1948-
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Gustaf Peringer and the Karaim
- 2020
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In: Turcologica Upsaliensia. - Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004435704 ; , s. 93-102
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- Csató, Éva Ágnes, Professor emerita, 1948-, et al.
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The Northwestern Turkic (Kipchak) languages
- 2020
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In: The Oxford guide to the Transeurasian languages. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780198804628 ; , s. 370-391
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter deals with the Northwestern (Kipchak) branch of the Turkic language family. Examples taken from this branch of Turkic illustrate phonological, morphological and syntactic features typical of Turkic languages. Reference is also made to special developments leading to the emergence of non-typical features in some Northwestern languages. Special emphasis is given to the description of the southern Kipchak language Kazakh in the middle of the Turkic speaking world and to the moribund western Kipchak language Lithuanian Karaim on its northwestern periphery. Moreover, the typical Turkic features are compared to the twenty core structures (CS) in Transeurasian languages evaluated in Robbeets (2017 and this volume).
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- Johanson, Lars, 1936-, et al.
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Turkic language contacts
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In: The Handbook of Language Contact. - Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell. - 9781119485025 ; , s. 551-570
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Ambiguous verb sequences in Transeurasian languages and beyond
- 2019
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Éva Á. Csató, Lars Johanson and Birsel Karakoç eds. 2019. Ambiguous Verb Sequences in Transeurasian Languages and Beyond (Turcologica 120). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. i-vii, 1–342.Some sequences of verbs can display systematic ambiguities in meaning. Accent patterns are among the means for disambiguating them. The volume 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 term “verb sequence” is used to refer to any contiguous sequence of two or more verbs. A structural ambiguity arises when two or more different readings can be assigned to the same sequence. For instance, a sequence of two verbs may be understood as two predicates describing consecutive events, or as a single predicate consisting of a lexical verb followed by an auxiliary verb. This latter type can display further ambiguity between actionality and viewpoint-aspect readings.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.The volume is 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.
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