Selective bibliography of the studies on the Kazakh language (original) (raw)

Kazakh linguistics in Kazakhstan: An outline

The aim of this article is to present the development of the Kazakh language study in Kazakhstan with its background in Russia and the Soviet Union. The outline is selective; it cannot be comprehensive. An attempt was made to show both strengths and weaknesses. The outline starts with text editions and goes through lexicography, grammar, lexicology and semantics, historical grammar and history of language, dialect studies and new trends. The article seeks to demonstrate the impact of Russian linguistics on Kazakh scholars, and also to indicate endeavours to find original approaches. However, multiple contrastive studies, especially Kazakh–Russian, as well as general linguistics fall outside the scope of this overview.

Baytursınulı's works on the Kazakh language – an attempt at assessment

The aim of this paper is to present the ideas about language of Aqımet Baytursınulı, the founder of Kazakh linguistics, first Kazakh author of Kazakh grammar. Attempt was made to present and discuss the grammatical categories and linguistic terms as well as to assess his methods and identify possible sources of linguistic description.

The Development of Linguistics in Kazakhstan: New Approaches and Modern Tendencies

Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore, 2016

The article represents an overview of some of the research priorities of Kazakhstani scientists who study the linguistic, socio-linguistic, and methodical parameters of scientific description of a language as a social fact. We describe the language situation in Kazakhstan, which creates a scientific background for theoretical and practical understanding of the language changes taking place in the country. The article shows that the common methodological basis of research is a systemic approach to the problem of multilingual space of Kazakhstan, in which different aspects of this complex phenomenon are consistently and purposefully studied from the standpoint of the theoretical provisions on the relationship of language and society. The sociolinguistic studies focus on the identification of the nature and role of languages in ethnocultural interaction. This way this research provides essential information for the timely adjustment of the language policy and language planning and is useful for management tasks in the field of language regulation.

THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF SYNHARMOPHONOLOGY IN THE KAZAKH LANGUAGE

According to the origin the Kazakh language and grammatical system belong to the Turkic-speaking group. The main aim of the linguistic typology, the Kazakh language is one of the main kinds of Turkic- agglutinative languages. It is mentioned in general linguistic works that the Turkic languages are agglutinative and they have harmony of vowels. In the agglutinative languages grammar is understood in adding endings in morphological structures of the sentences and it becomes complicated, but the ending of the sentence is not changed, if becomes the same.

Kazakh in contact with Russian in modern Kazakhstan

A visitor to Kazakhstan is struck by the dominance of Russian everywhere. A general impression is that both the official language and the first spoken language of non-Kazakhs and the majority of Kazakhs is Russian. Kazakh appears to play the role of a secondary language in all major cities and regions dominated by Russians. A specialist in Turkic languages who before visiting Kazakhstan worked with some Kazakh literary or folklore texts but does not know the real situation of language is astonished that instead of genuine Kazakh words he read in these texts he hears Russian words and phrases in almost every utterance. Naturally there also exists a high standard variety of Kazakh, free of code-mixing and code-switching, but in most cases it functions in strictly limited situations. The attempt of this paper is to show linguistic behaviours of Kazakhs in Kazakh-Russian language contacts and to show the state of Kazakh in modern Kazakhstan.

Historical and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Use of Anglicisms in the Kazakh Language

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015

The paper investigates the use of Anglicisms in Kazakh Language, focusing on the similarities and differences in their adoption and adaptation to the language system. In this regard, it is important to research the historical conditions of penetration of Anglicisms and describe lexical-semantic spheres of their use. Functions of this intensively growing lexical group reflect a wide range of social-political and cultural-humanitarian processes occurring in modern society. This active layer of lexical system of language, on the one hand, bears evidence of scientific and technical progress in Kazakhstan involved in the process of globalization, on the other hand, the problem of Anglicisms is an interesting object for sociolinguistic analysis. The conducted historical and sociolinguistic analysis allows us to draw a conclusion about changes both conceptual and the linguistic worldview of Kazakh people, about the new phenomena in its social and economic life, demanding language fixing.

Adjectives in Modern Kazakh

The goal of the present article is to show how some types of adjectives are used in Modern Kazakh. The article presents the state of research in this field. The article show differences between spoken and normative forms.

Historical Linguistics and Philology of Central Asia. Essays in Turkic and Mongolic Studies

Festschrift dedicated to Professor András Róna-Tas, 2022

András Róna-Tas, distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Szeged, Hungary, winner of several international prestigious prizes, has devoted his long academic career to the study of Chuvash, Turkic elements in Hungarian, Mongolic-Tibetan linguistic contacts, the Para-Mongolic language Khitan and other Central Asian languages and cultures. This book, presented to him in the occasion of his 90th birthday, contains a collection of papers in Turkic and Mongolic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture, and languages of the steppe civilizations. It is organized in three sections: Turkic Studies, Mongolic Studies, and Linguistic and cultural contacts of Altaic languages. It contains papers by some of most renowned experts in Central Asia Studies. Contributors are Klára Agyagási, Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky, Ágnes Birtalan, Uwe Bläsing, Éva Csáki, Éva Ágnes Csató, Edina Dallos, Marcel Erdal, Stefan Georg, Peter Golden, Mária Ivanics, Juha Janhunen, Lars Johanson, György Kara, Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Jens Peter Laut, Raushangul Mukusheva, Olach Zsuzsanna, Benedek Péri, Elisabetta Ragagnin, Pavel Rykin, Uli Schamiloglu, János Sipos, István Vásáry, Alexander Vovin, Michael Weiers, Jens Wilkens, Wu Yingzhe, Emine Yilmaz, and Peter Zieme. https://brill.com/view/title/61208

Reflection of the Language in the Historical Documents on Kazakhs Living in China

Connectivities and Common Legacies in Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey, 2022

Zhamila Mamyrkhanova looks at the linguistic patterns in the language of the Kazakhs living in China. Using the historical-comparative method, analysis of speech definitions, component, and semantic analysis, she argues that the language of Kazakhs from China is characterized by a variety of local features, which result from the differences in living conditions, life, customs and traditions, people's consciousness.