Modal Structures in Altay Tuvan

Aydemir İ. A.

TURKIC LANGUAGES, cilt.2, ss.215-232, 2020 (AHCI)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Dergi Adı: TURKIC LANGUAGES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, Index Islamicus, Linguistic Bibliography, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.215-232
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This article deals with grammaticalized expressions of modality in Tuvan with special focus on Altay Tuvan, a dialect spoken by the Tsengel Tuvan people, who live as seminomads in Tsengel village, a part of Bayan Olgiy in western Mongolia. Modal categories, including voluntative, optative, hypothetical, necessitative, potential, confirmative, presumptive, and prospective, are expressed in Altay Tuvan by different synthetic and analytic devices. The article describes these devices in comparison to other varieties of Tuvan. Data collected during field work by the author is presented.