A Comparative Study on the Modal Meaning of Person-Reflexive Possessive Markers in Contemporary Mongolian and Turkish

<jats:p>Mongolian and Turkic languages are agglutinative, belonging to the Altaic language family, and exhibit high structural similarity in overall aspects of sentence constituent order as well as of morphological and syntactic systems. Although there have been substantial studies that compared or contrasted grammatical systems of the two languages, based on such similarity, a comparative study that focuses on the aspect where person-reflexive possessive markers extend beyond their basic function of indicating possession to serve as modal particles is not yet conducted systematically. Therefore, this study aims to demonstrate the phenomena that some of person-reflexive possessive markers in contemporary Mongolian and Turkish take on modal meanings beyond their original function of indicating possession and attribution. To this end, the study will analyze actual example sentences, examining both commonalities and differences between the two languages.</jats:p>