A historical morphology of Western Karaim: The -a jez- ~ -a ez- approximative
Journal: Acta Orientalia
Year: 2021

Karaim is often treated as an exceptional Kipchak Turkic tongue in which certain, otherwise widespread Turkic verbal constructions are not present. Philological discoveries of recent years show, however, that some of these categories did exist in Karaim. As a response to this issue, the present article documents the Western Karaim equivalent of the Tkc. -a jaz- approximative construction. It is based on 18 th - and 19 th- century Biblical texts which are then juxtaposed with both phonetically an