Descriptive verbs in Kazakh.

摘要

The Turkic languages, as members of the Altaic language family, possess a quite noteworthy verbal structure which is based on verb + verb combinations. These verbal formations are composed of a verb which ends in an adverbial marker and another verb which describes the first verb; that is, simply, one adverbial and one descriptive verb create a verbal form which is called a descriptive verb combination or, as some scholars prefer, a compound verb.; This dissertation examines descriptive verbs in Kazakh, the official language of Kazakhstan. The main focus of my dissertation will be a number of descriptive verb combinations that are formed by a verb (adverbial) ending in the past adverbial maker -p, and the present adverbial marker -A (-a/-e/- y) followed by a descriptive verb used in written and spoken Kazakh. Both a descriptive verb and an adverbial combine together to form the predicate, or the verb phrase, (the ‘VP’, in broad, generative terminology) of a sentence in Kazakh.; I will examine not only the structural features of descriptive verbs, but I will also endeavor into the exploration of their semantic and grammatical functions in spoken and written Kazakh.