ON THE WORD ORDER OF SIMPLE SENTENCES IN TELEUT

Tokmashev Denis Mikhaylovich

DOI: 10.23951/2307-6119-2020-4-73-82

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Tokmashev Denis Mihajlovich, candidate of philology, assistant professor. Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics. 40 Lenina ave., Tomsk, Russia, 634050. E-mail: kogutei@yandex.ru

Word order typology can be referred to as a poorly developed area of Turkic syntax. The Teleut language belongs to the SOV-type of the left-branching languages. The predicate verb is located at the end of a simple sentence containing one proposition, with a direct object directly adjacent to it. The position of the indirect object and the adverbial may vary depending on the communicative perspective (information structure) of the sentence. The word order in the subordinate clause tends to copy that in the main clause. Functionally, the word order is responsible for the linear distribution of the predicate head and its dependents. The basic word order defines the distribution of verb arguments regardless of the adjuncts’ position. The theta roles of the arguments do not affect their syntactic functions and their position within a sentence. A change in the SOV-word order in Teleut may be concurred by its information structure, for example, when the subject and the predicate become focal and topical parts of the sentence respectively. At the present stage, the influence of Russian bringing about the pragmatically unconditioned SVO-pattern model is noted.

Keywords: simple sentence, word order, information structure, the Teleut language, Turkic lan-guages

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Issue: 4, 2020

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