Non-Finite Verbs İ n Oghuz Turkic: A Dependency Grammar Approach To Participles And Adverbial Verbs İ n Uzbek Oghuz Dialects And Standard Oghuz Languages

Non-finite verbs constitute a central category in Turkic languages in terms of form and function.This study presents a comparative analysis of participles and adverbial verbs in Uzbek Oghuz dialects and standard Oghuz languages, including Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Turkmen, from a dependency grammar perspective.The research demonstrates that non-finite verbs are not merely morphological derivations but function as both intermediate and secondary centers in sentence dependency structures.Participles depend on the nouns they modify while potentially containing their own dependencies such as subject or object; adverbial verbs attach to the predicate to establish relationships between actions, sometimes carrying objects or adverbial dependencies themselves.The suffix variants in Uzbek Oghuz dialects differ from standard languages, offering greater syntactic flexibility and reflecting historical language contact.Morphological parallels and the distribution of variant suffixes reveal both the historical continuity of Oghuz languages and regional divergences.These findings highlight the central role of non-finite verbs in the syntactic network and demonstrate that the dependency grammar framework is suitable for both theoretical and applied analyses in Oghuz languages.This study provides new data and methodological insights that are valuable for natural language processing, translation technologies, and comparative Turkology.