Turkic Languages
Edited by
Lars Johanson
in cooperation with
Hendrik Boeschoten, Bernt Brendemoen,
Éva Á. Csató, Peter B. Golden, Tooru Hayasi, Astrid Menz,
Dmitrij M. Nasilov, Irina Nevskaya, Sumru A. Özsoy
16 (2012) 1
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Contents
Turkic Languages, Volume 16, 2012, Number 1
Editorial note by Lars Johanson ........................................................................ 1
Articles
László Károly: History of the intervocalic velars in the Turkic languages ....... 3
Henryk Jankowski: Kazakh in contact with Russian in modern Kazakhstan ... 25
Talant Mawkanuli & Virginia Martin: Nineteenth century Kazak
correspondence with Russian authorities: Morphemic analysis and
historical contextualization .......................................................................... 68
Aminem Memtimin & Irina Nevskaya: Depictive secondary predicates in
Modern Uyghur ........................................................................................... 80
Omer Dawut: A study on English loanwords in Uyghur .................................. 95
Hasan Kaili & Aytaç Çeltek & Marianthi Georgalidou: Complement Clauses
in the Turkish variety spoken by Greek-Turkish bilingual children on
Rhodes, Greece ............................................................................................ 106
Margarete I. Ersen-Rasch: Bemerkungen zu den Relativsätzen im Türkischen 121
Report
Thomas E. Payne: Typology of Languages of Europe and Northern and
Central Asia (LENCA) ................................................................................ 139
Review
Béla Kempf: Review of Jan-Olof Svantesson (transl. and ed.), Cornelius
Rahmn’s Kalmuck dictionary ...................................................................... 145
Contents
Turkic Languages, Volume 16, 2012, Number 2
Editorial note by Lars Johanson ........................................................................ 151
Articles
Peter B. Golden: Oq and Oğur ~ Oğuz ............................................................. 155
Delio Vania Proverbio: A tentative (graphemically-based) reconstruction of
the vowel phonology of an early 18th-century Turkish-ġaršūnī text from
Edessa (present-day Şanlıurfa) .................................................................... 200
Abdollah Nazari & Judy Routamaa: The Iranian Turkmen language from a
contact linguistics perspective ..................................................................... 215
Hasan Mesut Meral: Kazakh complex verb structures: A Distributed
Morphology analysis ................................................................................... 239
Vladimir Monastyrev & Svetlana Prokopieva: Yakut verbs of thinking in
comparison with Russian verbs ................................................................... 257
Review
Martine Robbeets: Review of András Róna-Tas & Árpád Berta † (eds.), West
Old Turkic. Turkic loanwords in Hungarian ............................................... 265