Dryga I. "The syntagmatic specifics of Turkish (Balkan peninsula's region, the latter half of XIX - XX centuries"

The author's field investigations and translations of Ottoman Turkish mass media from the region's oriental archives underlie the research results. The research investigates inward- and intersyntagmatic relations and variations in the order of constitutive elements in Turkish. For this language, having very strict order in the sentence - subject - object - predicate - the sentences with fluctuations in syntagmatic order, other from the verb-final ones, occur in specific discourse conditions and are proved to have local restrictions. The sources and field studies allowed using the previous experience of the turkobalkan dialectology and introducing it into practice for the first time. According to dialectology data classification allows us to group the information into broad types as following: 1) Bulgaria - Deliorman, Gerlovo, Tozluq, Varna, Kustendil-Mikhailovgrad; 2) Gostivar, Okhrid, Nevroqop, Kosovo; 3) the North, South and North-Western part of Romania; 4) Tirana, Elbasan, Argirocastra, Shkodra, Kr uya, Qorcha; 5) Saloniki, Komotini, Western Thrace, Cyprus. A generalized cartographic presenting of the Turkish language zones forms the ground work for the analysis of the written language's data. The details of Turkish functioning are now lost, yet it's possible to reconstruct and compare the main outlines of the language features. 20 main parameters are proved to be determinative for outlining the regional variants of the language, and syntagmatic ones are to considered as comprehensive. The facts have shown that in the zones where different language systems are coming across, the caused changes result to appearance of some potentially marked "pragmatically caused" grammatic phenomena, and the syntax is a turning barrier for the contaminative invasion of one system into another.