Light Verbs in Uyghur

利用现代和历史文本、报纸和汉语突厥语的录音，该项目创建了第一个全面的、历时的中亚主要语言注释语料库(1895-2011)。它的目的是了解复杂动词结构的类型学发展。轻动词(有时被称为助动词)在现代维吾尔语中异常丰富，表达了说话人的意图、反讽和施事等语义细微差别。研究生和本科生将在多媒体语料库创建和文本注释和分析方面进行指导。与以维吾尔语为母语的人合作，结合定量和定性的语料库工作，将评估这些复杂动词结构的起源和发展。将这些突厥语的分析与波斯语、印地语和日语中的此类结构进行比较，将有助于揭示动词形式和意义的共性。

Using modern and historical texts, newspapers, and recordings from this Turkic language of Chinese Turkestan, this project creates the first comprehensive and diachronic annotated corpus (1895-2011) of a major Central Asian language. Its aim is to understand the typological development of complex verb constructions. Light verbs (sometimes termed "auxiliaries"), which are unusually plentiful in modern Uyghur, express semantic nuances such as speaker intention, irony, and agency. Graduate and undergraduate students will be mentored in multimedia corpus creation and text annotation and analysis. Work with native Uyghur speakers, together with quantitative and qualitative corpus work, will evaluate the origin and development of these complex verb constructions. A comparison of these analyses of Turkic languages with such constructions in Persian, Hindi, and Japanese will shed light on the universals of verb form and meaning.