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Q-Particle in Azari Turkish

Mohammad Reza Pahlavan Nezhad, Ph.D. in Linguistics
Mozhghan Habibi, Ph.D. Student in Linguistics
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

Abstract

Turkish (Türkçe or Türkiye Türkçesi) is one of the languages of the southwest branch or a group of Oghuz Turkic languages and is the official language of Republic of Turkey. Azerbaijani is a language branch of the family of Turkic languages, and the language of Azari people in southwestern Asia, primarily in Azerbaijan and Azerbaijan of Iran and in Republic of Azerbaijan which is the official language there.

In this paper, we adopt Hagstrom (1998) and Aygen (1999) to account for Turkish facts about the Q-particle. Evidence is presented from of Turkish and Azari Turkish and these are compared. It is a parameter. Turkish is a wh-in-situ language. It means Wh- is not forced to move in them. There is a null-Q in it which appears as a morpheme in yes/no and echo questions. The distribution of the Q-Particle will be given in (I); the problem of analyzing embedded questions in these two languages (II); similarities and differences of Q-Movement and wh- questions in them.

Key words: Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish, Q-particle, echo question and wh-questions.

Introduction

Turkish language or Turkish descent is a language family consisting of thirty-five languages and is recognized as a member of the family of Altaic languages. These languages are used in a large area of North Asia, North and West China to West Asia, parts of the Middle East and the Mediterranean coast, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. The speakers of Turkish languages are about 165 million. Turkish is an agglutinative language. It means the words and verbs get at a different meaning or tense by adding the suffix.

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Mohammad Reza Pahlavan Nezhad, Ph.D. in Linguistics
Associate Professor
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
Rezapahlavan5@yahoo.com

Mozhghan Habibi, Ph.D. Student in Linguistics
International Campus of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
m.habibi78@yahoo.com
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