Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
Turkic participant nominals, glossed 〈pn〉, refer to participants in actions and are derived by means of specific markers. They can be used without a syntactic head, e.g. Altay käl-gän ‘who/which has come’, Turkish ‹duy|duğ|um› ‘what I hear/heard’, ‹gel|en› ‘somebody/something coming/having come’. They can also be used adnominally, as attributes in nominal phrases, e.g. Altay käl-gän kiži ‘a/the person who has come’, Turkish ‹duy|duğ|um ses› ‘a/the sound I hear/heard’, ‹gel|en posta› ‘incoming mail’. In both functions, they may function as the nucleus of a relative clause. There is no reason to assume that the headless use is diachronically secondary to the attributive use.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.