터키어와 아제르바이잔어의 동작상 체계 비교 연구

A Comparative Study of the Aspect Affixes of the Turkish and Azerbaijani

This paper suggests that aspect is more basic category in both Turkish and Azerbaijani than tense, and inflections typically treated as markers of tense have to be reanalyzed in terms of this function. In summary, Both Turkish and Azerbaijani appear to have five distinct markers for aspect: the perfect of direct experience {-Dİ1/-dİ1}, the perfect of indirect experience {-mİş/-mİş}, the progressive {-İyor/-(y)İr}, the prospective {-(y)AcAK/-(y)AcAQ} and the habitual/iterative {-(A/İ)r/-(y)Ar}. Though the primary function of the perfect of direct experience {-Dİ1/-dİ1}, the perfect of indirect experience {-mİş/-mİş}, the progressive {-İyor/-(y)İr} and the prospective {-(y)AcAK/-(y)AcAQ} is aspectual, whether the habitual/iterative {-(A/İ)r/-(y)Ar} should be analyzed as part of the aspectual or modal systems of Turkish and Azerbaijani has to be investigated in further detail. In conclusion, I hope that this paper, in raising some questions as well as answering some, has revealed the necessity for more systematic analyses of the tense-aspect system in both Turkish and Azerbaijani within a perspective not determined by categories of the Indo-European languages.