ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an insight on main constructions and categories of the Kazakh language, with special emphasis on syntax. It deals with the syntax of simple and complex sentences, as well as with syntax of noun and verbal phrases, including auxiliary verb constructions. As a Turkic language, Kazakh exhibits two kinds of simple sentences: the nominal and the verbal. In the nominal sentence, the predicate slot is occupied by a nonverb form. In the verbal sentence, it is expressed by a verb phrase. When transitive verbs are made passive, their direct object appears as subject of the passive of the passive voice sentence. Linking sentences contain a subject and a copula marker which is suffixed to the predicate nominal. Exclamatory sentences express strong feelings or emotions and are introduced by interrogative pronouns. Imperative sentences express directives. They differ from a declarative sentence in that they do not have a subject and have a verb in the base form.
