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Author Muhamedowa, Raihan, author

Title Kazakh : a comprehensive grammar / Raihan Muhamedowa
Published Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 299 pages .)
Series Routledge Comprehensive Grammars
Routledge comprehensive grammars.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of abbreviations; The Kazakh alphabet; Main properties of Kazakh; 1 Syntax; 1.1 Simple sentence; 1.1.1 Nominal sentences; Linking sentences; Existential sentences; 1.1.2 Verbal sentences; 1.1.3 The syntax of voice; 1.2 Constituent order; 1.2.1 The immediately preverbal position; 1.2.2 The topic position; 1.2.3 The extraposition of whole phrases and adverbs; 1.2.4 The postverbal position of the particle ɣoy and the modal words šïɣar, sekildi, siyaqtï; 1.2.5 The position of other frequently used particles and modal words
1.3 Functional sentence types1.3.1 Declarative sentences; 1.3.2 Interrogative sentences; Yes/no questions; Alternative interrogatives; Tag questions; Questions formed by the clitics -šI and -še; Wh- questions; Multiple occurrence of wh- elements; Declarative questions; Echo questions; 1.3.3 The use of interrogative sentences for expressing emotions; 1.3.4 Exclamatory sentences; 1.3.5 Imperative sentences; The use of the auxiliaries bol- and kör- in imperative sentences; Other means of expressing orders; 1.4 Direct speech; 1.5 Complex sentence. Noun clauses
1.5.1 Finite and nonfinite noun clauses1.5.2 Extraposition of noun clauses; 1.5.3 Indirect statements; 1.5.4 Indirect questions; 1.6 Basic characteristics of relative clauses; 1.6.1 Subject and object relatives; 1.6.2 Personal pronouns as the head noun; 1.6.3 Headless relative clauses; 1.7 Causal clauses; 1.7.1 Finite causal clauses; Subordinators that introduce the effect: Sondïqtan, sol üšin, sol sebepti and poetomu; Subordinators that introduce the cause: öytkeni, sebebi and potomu čto; 1.7.2 Nonfinite causal clauses; 1.8 Temporal clauses; 1.8.1 -GAndA; 1.8.2 -GAn kezde; 1.8.3 -(A)rdA
1.8.4 -GAnnAn soŋ, -GAnnAn keyin1.8.5 -GAnGA deyin; 1.8.6 -(A)r aldïnda, -(A)rdAn burïn; 1.8.7 -GAlI; 1.8.8 -GAnnAn beri; 1.8.9 -GAnšA; 1.8.10 -IsImen; 1.8.11 -GAn sayïn; 1.9 Conditional clauses; 1.9.1 Real conditions; 1.9.2 Unreal conditions; 1.9.3 Other ways of expressing conditional relations; 1.10 Concessive clauses; 1.11 Purposive clauses; 1.12 Coordination; 1.12.1 Copulative coordination; 1.12.2 Adversative coordination; 1.12.3 Disjunctive coordination; 1.13 Syntax of noun phrases. Internal structure of noun phrases; 1.13.1 Items that can function as the head of a noun phrase
1.13.2 Items that can function as modifiers1.13.3 Compounds; Bare compounds; -(s)I compounds; Conjoined compounds; Multilayered compounds; Coordinative compounds (twin words); Adjective-noun compounds; Noun-verb compounds; Verb-verb compounds; 1.13.4 Apposition; 1.13.5 Genitive-possessive constructions; 1.13.6 Dative-governed noun phrases; 1.13.7 Noun phrases with clausal modifiers; 1.13.8 The use of the determinative öz in noun phrases; 1.13.9 Coordination in noun phrases; 1.13.10 Left-headed noun phrases; 1.13.11 Stump compounds; 1.13.12 Compounds with English nouns
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In Kazakh and English
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Subject Kazakh language -- Grammar -- Study and teaching
Kazakh language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English
Kazakh language.
Genre/Form Textbooks
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1317573072
9781317573074
9781315738239
1315738236