On the Origin of the Directive Case in Turkic

Author: John A. Erickson

Source: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Volume 55, Number 4, 20 December 2002 , pp. 403-411(9)

Publisher: Akademiai Kiado

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Abstract:

This paper investigates the origin of suffixes in Turkic languages with forms similar to -aru ~ -gärü and -ra ~ -rä, -ru ~ -rü, -rï ~ -ri, referred to in grammars as markers of a “directive case”. There has been considerable uncertainty about the historical development of these suffixes as case markers, leading to a number of attempts to reconstruct their original form and function in both Proto-Turkic and Proto-Altaic, all of which have proven inconclusive. This study examines the problem from a new perspective. It begins with a reassessment of attempts at reconstruction, considering the various benefits and shortcomings of each approach. Then, based on morphological and syntactic data from Old Turkic, it offers a reconstruction of the original form and function of the directive case in pre-Old Turkic.

Keywords: Old Turkic; directive case; historical linguistics; Turkic languages; morphosyntactic change

Document Type: Research article

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