ISSUES OF GRAMMATICALISATION IN TURKIC MODAL CONSTRUCTIONS
ISSUES OF GRAMMATICALISATION IN TURKIC MODAL CONSTRUCTIONS

Summary/Abstract: Grammaticalisation is an umbrella term for a set of partly unrelated processes that share a common result, namely the emergence of grammatical units. Although the Turkic languages represent a relatively homogeneous family of closely related languages, they are highly variegated in terms of how they express modal categories. The multitude of expressions stems from a restricted set of developments that can be empirically documented. This paper investigates heterogeneous specimens of expressions of modality in the Turkic languages and identifies the mechanisms that underlie the diachronic and synchronic variation that can be observed in Turkic modal constructions.

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