Non-verbal predication in Turkic languages

This contribution describes non-verbal predication in Turkic languages, a geographically rather large language family stretching from Western Europe to East Asia. It is organized as follows: Section 1 provides preliminary remarks on Turkic morphosyntactic features, a general introduction to non-verbal predications as well as an overview of Turkic predicative nucleus and copula types. The subsequent sections focus on selected aspects of Turkic non-verbal predication: Section 2 analyses Turkic non-verbal predications according to syntactic types and the morphosyntactic nature of the predicate (nominal, adjectival and adverbial); §3 discusses locational predication; §4 analyses possessive predication, and §5 offers insight into ostensive predication. Section 6 presents some concluding remarks.