The article continues the discussion of isogloss types and their relevance for the Proto-Turkic reconstruction and reconstruction of the intermediate nodes of the Turkic family tree. Goals. The paper makes another attempt to reconstruct... more
The article continues the discussion of isogloss types and their relevance for
the Proto-Turkic reconstruction and reconstruction of the intermediate nodes of the Turkic family
tree. Goals. The paper makes another attempt to reconstruct the morphophonological appearance of
some affixes for intermediate languages-ancestors of the standard Turkic group (Oguz, ‘Kyrgyz’,
Altai, Karluk, Toba, Kypchak). The study draws into consideration not only the plural affix *-lar, but
in general inflectional and derivational affixes starting with *-l. Materials and Methods. Methods of
stepwise reconstruction are used simultaneously with morphophonological methods of identifying
classes of positions and distribution of classes of allomorphs. Field records of dialects, dialectological
publications, both modern ones and those of the 19 th century, as well as written monuments were used
as research material. Results. Both modern field data and classical sources, with the correct application
of the methods of stepwise reconstruction, point that affixal *-l has no alternants in proto-Oghuz, proto-
Karluk and proto-Qypchaq. All instances of alternation in modern idioms like dialectal Bashkir, dialectal
Kazakh, ‘Qyrghyz’ languages, Yakut-Dolghan and Toba languages are to be classified as recent areal
innovation. This is deduced due to the nature of morphophonological rules in these languages — neither
is applyable for the proto-Common-Turkic stem auslaut, but instead is limited to forms that are specific
to each separate group in question.
the Proto-Turkic reconstruction and reconstruction of the intermediate nodes of the Turkic family
tree. Goals. The paper makes another attempt to reconstruct the morphophonological appearance of
some affixes for intermediate languages-ancestors of the standard Turkic group (Oguz, ‘Kyrgyz’,
Altai, Karluk, Toba, Kypchak). The study draws into consideration not only the plural affix *-lar, but
in general inflectional and derivational affixes starting with *-l. Materials and Methods. Methods of
stepwise reconstruction are used simultaneously with morphophonological methods of identifying
classes of positions and distribution of classes of allomorphs. Field records of dialects, dialectological
publications, both modern ones and those of the 19 th century, as well as written monuments were used
as research material. Results. Both modern field data and classical sources, with the correct application
of the methods of stepwise reconstruction, point that affixal *-l has no alternants in proto-Oghuz, proto-
Karluk and proto-Qypchaq. All instances of alternation in modern idioms like dialectal Bashkir, dialectal
Kazakh, ‘Qyrghyz’ languages, Yakut-Dolghan and Toba languages are to be classified as recent areal
innovation. This is deduced due to the nature of morphophonological rules in these languages — neither
is applyable for the proto-Common-Turkic stem auslaut, but instead is limited to forms that are specific
to each separate group in question.
