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Acta orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (Print), Dec 1, 2014
In the present paper I aimed to identify and separate the Kipchak (Northwestern Turkic) elements ... more In the present paper I aimed to identify and separate the Kipchak (Northwestern Turkic) elements in the 13th-14th-century Khwarezmian Turkic literary language, primarily drawing on the linguistic material of Gulistān bi'l-Turkī and Nahǰu'l-Farādīs. By comparing the grammars of several Khwarezmian Turkic writings and analysing the complete vocabulary of the above two works, the relationship between Khwarezmian Turkic and the Kipchak languages becomes more transparent than hitherto thought of. The results may contribute to better understanding the heterogeneous views concerning Khwarezmian Turkic that appeared during the last one hundred years.
Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Oct 15, 2020
This paper accounts for the four auxiliaries in Kazakh that express the imperfective aspect. The ... more This paper accounts for the four auxiliaries in Kazakh that express the imperfective aspect. The main factors-the auxiliary, the main verb, their inflections and the aspectual specifications reveal a complicated system, which can be captured with an appropriate monotonic, multiple inheritance type hierarchy using online-type construction with the implementation of Pāṇ inian competition. This analysis sheds light to a very different auxiliary system that we find in Indo-European languages.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 2020
This paper proposes an account for the four auxiliaries in Kazakh that express the imperfective a... more This paper proposes an account for the four auxiliaries in Kazakh that express the imperfective aspect. The main factors – the auxiliary, the main verb, their inflections and the aspectual specifications reveal a complicated system, which can be captured with an appropriate monotonic, multiple inheritance type hierarchy using online-type construction with the implementation of Pāṇinian competition. This analysis sheds light to a very different auxiliary system that we find in Indo-European languages.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 2020
This paper proposes an account for the four auxiliaries in Kazakh that express the imperfective a... more This paper proposes an account for the four auxiliaries in Kazakh that express the imperfective aspect. The main factors – the auxiliary, the main verb, their inflections and the aspectual specifications reveal a complicated system, which can be captured with an appropriate monotonic, multiple inheritance type hierarchy using online-type construction with the implementation of Pāṇinian competition. This analysis sheds light to a very different auxiliary system that we find in Indo-European languages.
This paper accounts for the four auxiliaries in Kazakh that express the imperfective aspect. The ... more This paper accounts for the four auxiliaries in Kazakh that express the imperfective aspect. The main factors – the auxiliary, the main verb, their inflections and the aspectual specifications reveal a complicated system, which can be captured with an appropriate monotonic, multiple inheritance type hierarchy using online-type construction with the implementation of Pāṇinian competition. This analysis sheds light to a very different auxiliary system that we find in Indo-European languages.
In the present paper I aimed to identify and separate the Kipchak (Northwestern Turkic) elements ... more In the present paper I aimed to identify and separate the Kipchak (Northwestern Turkic) elements in
the 13th – 14th-century Khwarezmian Turkic literary language, primarily drawing on the linguistic material
of Gulistān bi’l-Turkī and Nahǰu’l-Farādīs. By comparing the grammars of several Khwarezmian
Turkic writings and analysing the complete vocabulary of the above two works, the relationship
between Khwarezmian Turkic and the Kipchak languages becomes more transparent than hitherto
thought of. The results may contribute to better understanding the heterogeneous views concerning
Khwarezmian Turkic that appeared during the last one hundred years.
Materials of the International Students' Conference "Earth - Out Common Home", 2014
This short paper looks into the ambiguous views of ethnic Kazakh speakers about their own languag... more This short paper looks into the ambiguous views of ethnic Kazakh speakers about their own language. The main question is how to evaluate Slavic lexical items in modern vernacular, especially in contrast with the late efforts to turn Kazakh into a language feasible for the highest adminisrtative and educational usage.
Conference Presentations by Dávid Győrfi
In the present paper I aimed to identify and separate the Kipchak (Northwestern Turkic) elements ... more In the present paper I aimed to identify and separate the Kipchak (Northwestern Turkic) elements in
the 13th – 14th-century Khwarezmian Turkic literary language, primarily drawing on the linguistic material
of Gulistān bi’l-Turkī and Nahǰu’l-Farādīs. By comparing the grammars of several Khwarezmian
Turkic writings and analysing the complete vocabulary of the above two works, the relationship
between Khwarezmian Turkic and the Kipchak languages becomes more transparent than hitherto
thought of. The results may contribute to better understanding the heterogeneous views concerning
Khwarezmian Turkic that appeared during the last one hundred years.
Thesis Chapters by Dávid Győrfi
![Research paper thumbnail of Auxiliary verb constructions in Modern Spoken Kazakh [PhD Thesis]](https://attachments.academia-assets.com/88291020/thumbnails/1.jpg)
](University of Surrey, 2022
The Turkic language Kazakh has a remarkably large set of eighteen auxiliary verbs, which express ... more The Turkic language Kazakh has a remarkably large set of eighteen auxiliary verbs, which express various tense-aspect-modality (TAM) values in combination with a lexical verb. This thesis presents the first multivariate analysis of auxiliary verb constructions (AVCs) to precisely define the function and distribution of every auxiliary in Modern Spoken Kazakh.
Based on corpus data and first-hand fieldwork, I demonstrate that contemporary Kazakh has 28 AVCs, each with a distinctive function. I argue that some morphologically or syntactically ambiguous constructions, hitherto analyzed as AVCs, should be treated as lexical verbs in separate clauses. Previ-ously undescribed AVCs are described, including an unexpected case of stem alternation. The distribu-tional analyses demonstrate that some AVCs are sensitive to syntactic parameters, such as the independ-ence of the clause they head. Others are expressions of a purely semantic feature and thus are insensitive to syntax, such as the modal abilitative. Thus, AVCs are grouped into six classes in order to contrast distinctive distributional behavior with characteristics shared across constructions. The analysis assumes that auxiliaries are periphrastic and thus are part of the lexical verb’s paradigm. Therefore, alongside AVCs, synthetic TAM expressions are investigated and the results include precise descriptions and a novel contrastive analysis of three past tense expressions.
The description is complemented by an HPSG style analysis in order to present the system using a rigorous, feature-based approach. This is the first attempt to formalize a large auxiliary system with implemented solutions that lay the grounds for future work on the diachrony of auxiliaries. I propose novel semantic features that account for distinctions including boundedness, phase specification and focus. The main contribution is a systematic, synchronic, fine-grain examination of every Kazakh aux-iliary verb, which makes this complex system available for the general linguist, as well as specialists of TAM and periphrasis.
Acta orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (Print), Dec 1, 2014
In the present paper I aimed to identify and separate the Kipchak (Northwestern Turkic) elements ... more In the present paper I aimed to identify and separate the Kipchak (Northwestern Turkic) elements in the 13th-14th-century Khwarezmian Turkic literary language, primarily drawing on the linguistic material of Gulistān bi'l-Turkī and Nahǰu'l-Farādīs. By comparing the grammars of several Khwarezmian Turkic writings and analysing the complete vocabulary of the above two works, the relationship between Khwarezmian Turkic and the Kipchak languages becomes more transparent than hitherto thought of. The results may contribute to better understanding the heterogeneous views concerning Khwarezmian Turkic that appeared during the last one hundred years.
Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Oct 15, 2020
This paper accounts for the four auxiliaries in Kazakh that express the imperfective aspect. The ... more This paper accounts for the four auxiliaries in Kazakh that express the imperfective aspect. The main factors-the auxiliary, the main verb, their inflections and the aspectual specifications reveal a complicated system, which can be captured with an appropriate monotonic, multiple inheritance type hierarchy using online-type construction with the implementation of Pāṇ inian competition. This analysis sheds light to a very different auxiliary system that we find in Indo-European languages.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 2020
This paper proposes an account for the four auxiliaries in Kazakh that express the imperfective a... more This paper proposes an account for the four auxiliaries in Kazakh that express the imperfective aspect. The main factors – the auxiliary, the main verb, their inflections and the aspectual specifications reveal a complicated system, which can be captured with an appropriate monotonic, multiple inheritance type hierarchy using online-type construction with the implementation of Pāṇinian competition. This analysis sheds light to a very different auxiliary system that we find in Indo-European languages.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 2020
This paper proposes an account for the four auxiliaries in Kazakh that express the imperfective a... more This paper proposes an account for the four auxiliaries in Kazakh that express the imperfective aspect. The main factors – the auxiliary, the main verb, their inflections and the aspectual specifications reveal a complicated system, which can be captured with an appropriate monotonic, multiple inheritance type hierarchy using online-type construction with the implementation of Pāṇinian competition. This analysis sheds light to a very different auxiliary system that we find in Indo-European languages.
This paper accounts for the four auxiliaries in Kazakh that express the imperfective aspect. The ... more This paper accounts for the four auxiliaries in Kazakh that express the imperfective aspect. The main factors – the auxiliary, the main verb, their inflections and the aspectual specifications reveal a complicated system, which can be captured with an appropriate monotonic, multiple inheritance type hierarchy using online-type construction with the implementation of Pāṇinian competition. This analysis sheds light to a very different auxiliary system that we find in Indo-European languages.
In the present paper I aimed to identify and separate the Kipchak (Northwestern Turkic) elements ... more In the present paper I aimed to identify and separate the Kipchak (Northwestern Turkic) elements in
the 13th – 14th-century Khwarezmian Turkic literary language, primarily drawing on the linguistic material
of Gulistān bi’l-Turkī and Nahǰu’l-Farādīs. By comparing the grammars of several Khwarezmian
Turkic writings and analysing the complete vocabulary of the above two works, the relationship
between Khwarezmian Turkic and the Kipchak languages becomes more transparent than hitherto
thought of. The results may contribute to better understanding the heterogeneous views concerning
Khwarezmian Turkic that appeared during the last one hundred years.
Materials of the International Students' Conference "Earth - Out Common Home", 2014
This short paper looks into the ambiguous views of ethnic Kazakh speakers about their own languag... more This short paper looks into the ambiguous views of ethnic Kazakh speakers about their own language. The main question is how to evaluate Slavic lexical items in modern vernacular, especially in contrast with the late efforts to turn Kazakh into a language feasible for the highest adminisrtative and educational usage.
In the present paper I aimed to identify and separate the Kipchak (Northwestern Turkic) elements ... more In the present paper I aimed to identify and separate the Kipchak (Northwestern Turkic) elements in
the 13th – 14th-century Khwarezmian Turkic literary language, primarily drawing on the linguistic material
of Gulistān bi’l-Turkī and Nahǰu’l-Farādīs. By comparing the grammars of several Khwarezmian
Turkic writings and analysing the complete vocabulary of the above two works, the relationship
between Khwarezmian Turkic and the Kipchak languages becomes more transparent than hitherto
thought of. The results may contribute to better understanding the heterogeneous views concerning
Khwarezmian Turkic that appeared during the last one hundred years.
University of Surrey, 2022
The Turkic language Kazakh has a remarkably large set of eighteen auxiliary verbs, which express ... more The Turkic language Kazakh has a remarkably large set of eighteen auxiliary verbs, which express various tense-aspect-modality (TAM) values in combination with a lexical verb. This thesis presents the first multivariate analysis of auxiliary verb constructions (AVCs) to precisely define the function and distribution of every auxiliary in Modern Spoken Kazakh.
Based on corpus data and first-hand fieldwork, I demonstrate that contemporary Kazakh has 28 AVCs, each with a distinctive function. I argue that some morphologically or syntactically ambiguous constructions, hitherto analyzed as AVCs, should be treated as lexical verbs in separate clauses. Previ-ously undescribed AVCs are described, including an unexpected case of stem alternation. The distribu-tional analyses demonstrate that some AVCs are sensitive to syntactic parameters, such as the independ-ence of the clause they head. Others are expressions of a purely semantic feature and thus are insensitive to syntax, such as the modal abilitative. Thus, AVCs are grouped into six classes in order to contrast distinctive distributional behavior with characteristics shared across constructions. The analysis assumes that auxiliaries are periphrastic and thus are part of the lexical verb’s paradigm. Therefore, alongside AVCs, synthetic TAM expressions are investigated and the results include precise descriptions and a novel contrastive analysis of three past tense expressions.
The description is complemented by an HPSG style analysis in order to present the system using a rigorous, feature-based approach. This is the first attempt to formalize a large auxiliary system with implemented solutions that lay the grounds for future work on the diachrony of auxiliaries. I propose novel semantic features that account for distinctions including boundedness, phase specification and focus. The main contribution is a systematic, synchronic, fine-grain examination of every Kazakh aux-iliary verb, which makes this complex system available for the general linguist, as well as specialists of TAM and periphrasis.