Ebook: Subject version and object version in Tofa auxiliary verb constructions

Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, Turkic Languages Vol. 5 (1, 2001): 240-269.ISSN 1431-4983In this paper, we address the characteristically Turkic auxiliary verb constructions functioning to mark the categories of subject version and object version in Tofa with parallels from both other Turkic languages of the Altai-Sayan (e.g. Xakas, Tìva dìl, Altai, etc.), as well as languages from the farthest reaches of the Turkic-speaking world, both temporally and geographically, with data from such languages modern Yakut (Saxa), Turkmen, Uygur, Tatar, Xalaj˙and Chuvash, and Old Turkic. Typological parallels to Turkic auxiliary verb phenomena in other languages are offered on occasion, where merited.