Morpho-Syntactic Character Of Additives: A Descriptive Approach to Additives in Asian Sov Languages

Traditionally Turkish is considered as an SOV language and a member of the Altaic Languages. In this sense, most of the previous contrastive studies have been done by using the data from the Altaic languages. Contrary to this method, this study focuses on additives in SOV languages of Asia which are considered to be in different families. It must be noted that even if language families are clearly differing from each other, additives show almost same or similar behaviors that, could be considered as a universal process, independent of geographical distribution.Keywords: SOV languages, additives, particles, clitics, Asian languages

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Traditionally Turkish is considered as an SOV language and a member of the Altaic Languages. In this sense, most of the previous contrastive studies have been done by using the data from the Altaic languages. Contrary to this method, this study focuses on additives in SOV languages of Asia which are considered to be in different families. It must be noted that even if language families are clearly differing from each other, additives show almost same or similar behaviors that, could be considered as a universal process, independent of geographical distribution.

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