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Abstract

The main subject of this study is the taxis functions of the participles -GAn and -vatkan in Modern Uyghur. The category of taxis, which can be transferred as temporal sequencing or temporal binding, is a linguistic category that deals with the temporal relations established by the events in a basic sentence against each other. This category, which is divided into dependent and independent taxis in Russian and prioritises event ordering, has gained a more semantic dimension in the Western literature with the classification of parataxis and hypotaxis on the axis of clause. In this study, it is attempted to determine the function of the category of taksis on the participles of Modern Uyghur. The analysis method is based on both the chronological temporal relationship in the form of the order of events (precedence, simultaneity, succession) that forms the basis of the category and the syntactic positions of the clauses in which the events take place. In the analysis, as a result of the semantic structure of the participles -GAn, -mIş, -An, -DIK and -mAktA, the precedence developed from the perception of the result and it was also observed that process could establish an emphasised synchronicity relation; it was determined that the event-ordering clause could be connected to the event to which it was connected in subject, object and complement positions. Unlike the participle -GAn, the participle -vatkan shows stability in the synchronicity relation due to its process-oriented archaic development and its functional semantic field is not as wide as -GAn.