Book contents
- Turkic
- Cambridge Language Surveys
- Turkic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Technicalities
- 3 The Turkic Language Family
- 4 Turcia, the Turkic World
- 5 Status
- 6 Historical Backgrounds
- 7 Cultures
- 8 Linguistic Periodizations
- 9 Registers of Orature and Literature
- 10 Language Contacts
- 11 Lexicon
- 12 Sound Types
- 13 Prime Syllables
- 14 Phonemes in Prime Syllables
- 15 Polysyllabic Word Forms
- 16 Diachronic Phonology
- 17 Diachrony: Vowels
- 18 Diachrony: Consonants
- 19 Writing Systems
- 20 Morphology: Generalities
- 21 Nominals: Nouns
- 22 Nominals: Noun Inflection
- 23 Nominals: Adjectives
- 24 Nominals: Pronominals
- 25 Quantifiers and Numerals
- 26 Postpositions
- 27 Copular Devices
- 28 Verb Stems
- 29 Postverbial Constructions
- 30 Finite Verbals
- 31 Verbals: Viewpoint Aspect
- 32 Old Intraterminals: Aorists
- 33 Focal Intraterminals
- 34 Postterminals
- 35 Terminals
- 36 Imperatives
- 37 Modality
- 38 Voluntatives
- 39 Optatives
- 40 Hypotheticals
- 41 Further Modals
- 42 Copular Particles of Thematic Bases
- 43 Nonfinite Verbals
- 44 Participant Nominals
- 45 Action Nominals
- 46 Converbs
- 47 Adverbs
- 48 Function Words
- 49 Interjections
- 50 Word Accents
- 51 Syntactic Levels
- 52 Nominal Phrases
- 53 Verbal Phrases
- 54 Main Clauses
- 55 Nonmain Clauses
- 56 Sentences
- 57 Above the Sentence Level
- 58 Prosody
- 59 Functional Synopses
- References
- Index of linguistics and historical backgrounds
- Index of languages and dialects
- Index of subjects
56 - Sentences
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
Book contents
- Turkic
- Cambridge Language Surveys
- Turkic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Technicalities
- 3 The Turkic Language Family
- 4 Turcia, the Turkic World
- 5 Status
- 6 Historical Backgrounds
- 7 Cultures
- 8 Linguistic Periodizations
- 9 Registers of Orature and Literature
- 10 Language Contacts
- 11 Lexicon
- 12 Sound Types
- 13 Prime Syllables
- 14 Phonemes in Prime Syllables
- 15 Polysyllabic Word Forms
- 16 Diachronic Phonology
- 17 Diachrony: Vowels
- 18 Diachrony: Consonants
- 19 Writing Systems
- 20 Morphology: Generalities
- 21 Nominals: Nouns
- 22 Nominals: Noun Inflection
- 23 Nominals: Adjectives
- 24 Nominals: Pronominals
- 25 Quantifiers and Numerals
- 26 Postpositions
- 27 Copular Devices
- 28 Verb Stems
- 29 Postverbial Constructions
- 30 Finite Verbals
- 31 Verbals: Viewpoint Aspect
- 32 Old Intraterminals: Aorists
- 33 Focal Intraterminals
- 34 Postterminals
- 35 Terminals
- 36 Imperatives
- 37 Modality
- 38 Voluntatives
- 39 Optatives
- 40 Hypotheticals
- 41 Further Modals
- 42 Copular Particles of Thematic Bases
- 43 Nonfinite Verbals
- 44 Participant Nominals
- 45 Action Nominals
- 46 Converbs
- 47 Adverbs
- 48 Function Words
- 49 Interjections
- 50 Word Accents
- 51 Syntactic Levels
- 52 Nominal Phrases
- 53 Verbal Phrases
- 54 Main Clauses
- 55 Nonmain Clauses
- 56 Sentences
- 57 Above the Sentence Level
- 58 Prosody
- 59 Functional Synopses
- References
- Index of linguistics and historical backgrounds
- Index of languages and dialects
- Index of subjects
Summary
A number of characteristics of Turkic main clauses have been discussed above. This chapter will briefly deal with structures found at sentence level. Turkic sentences express statements, questions, and commands, and display certain grammatical structures. A sentence can consist of one single clause or of several clauses with specific relations between them. The head of the sentence is a main clause predicate, which links the involved clauses together and marks the border to the following sentence in a text.
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- Turkic , pp. 932 - 950Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021