The present article investigates a type of complex sentence in Turkish where the predicate
of the embedded clause is based on a conditional form followed by the particle de or
sometimes bile. The syntactic and semantic peculiarities of this construction in Turkish
are outlined according to the exhaustive description of concessive conditionals…[Read more]

This article gives an overview of the conditional and its functions in the
South Siberian Turkic languages Altay Turkic, Shor, Khakas, Tuvan and Tofan.

On the ethnic identity of the Gagauz, a small Turkic speaking Christian community on the Balkans.

Map shows the location of various Turkic languages in Europe as well as an approx. number of speakers.

This article describes a set of right-branching dependent clauses based on finite predicates in Gagauz. These clause types have developed, as will be argued, under the influence of Bulgarian and Russian and have displaced the left-branching clauses of the Turkic type. All propositions are introduced by the junctor ani, which is used to introduce…[Read more]

On Turkish orthographic rules and their representation in orthographic dictionaries

This article deals with the global copy of a bound morpheme in Gagauz. The feminine marker -(y)ka, copied from Slavic, is used to build female forms of denominations for persons.