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Balkar X-marking: a change in progress

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  • Daniar Kasenov

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This paper explores patterns of morphological expressions employed by Balkar language (Turkic language spoken by ca. 300K people in Russia) to mark contexts of X-marking (von Fintel & Iatridou 2020): counterfactual conditionals, weak necessity modals, and counterfactual desires. The main oddity of Balkar with respect to X-marking is that its X-marking system appears to be transforming into a system without antecedent X-marking. The theoretical implications of this pattern are explored in this paper.

Keywords: Turkic, Balkar, x-marking, conditionals

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Kasenov, D., (2023) “Balkar X-marking: a change in progress”, Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic 7, 128 - 135. doi: https://doi.org/10.3765/ptu.v7i1.5327

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2023-01-31

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