The Krymchak Nominative as One of the Indicators of Noun Indefiniteness and the Cases of Unusual Use of it in the Biblical Translations
Journal: Rocznik Orientalistyczny/Yearbook of Oriental Studies
Year: 2024

The Turkic languages, including the Krymchak (=Krimchak) Jewish ethnolect of the Crimean Tatar, have no formal markers of the (in)definiteness of a noun, but a certain lexical and morphological set allow for linguists to determine the meaning of the definiteness / indefiniteness. However, also the Krymchak nominative case fulfils the role of the indefinite index in the functions of a direct object and of an attribute, which is argued in the first part of this article. Thus, the connection and op