21. yüzyılın ilk çeyreğinde Çuvaşça araştırmaları

This chapter surveys research on Chuvash, which it regards as the most archaic Turkic language, in the first quarter of the 21st century. It first reviews the state of the Altaic hypothesis: the twentieth-century debate between its proponents and opponents; its revival in the 2000s under the influence of Johanson's view that verb morphology can indicate genetic relationship and of the Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages (EDAL); the neutral term Transeurasian; Robbeets' work on verb morphology; Károly's critique of Blažek's Altaic handbook; the inclusion of Kitan; and Janhunen's conclusion that the Altaic complex is an areal-typological union of separate language families. It then introduces databases containing Chuvash data: The Global Lexicostatistical Database, Dybo's Chronology of Türkic Languages and Linguistic Contacts of Early Türks, the Leipzig-Jakarta list, the Turku Chuvash Corpus and the Corpus of the Chuvash Language. The last part reviews contributions by national tradition. From Turkey it presents symposia held at Hacettepe University, thirteen doctoral dissertations completed since 2000, fourteen monographs and two projects, one of which documented Chuvash in all regions where it is spoken (2014–2015). From Finland it presents Luutonen's study of syntactic nominalizers, from South Korea Choi's comparative phonology and morphology, from Hungary West Old Turkic, a bibliography of Hungarian research on Chuvash, Agyagási's Chuvash Historical Phonetics and the Ahlqvist dialect dictionary, and from Russia EDAL and works by Levitskaya, Mudrak, Savelyev, Dolgova and Kuznetsov. The chapter concludes that the Hungarian and Russian schools have made the most significant contributions to Chuvash studies.