6th International Symposium Oriental Studies

The 6 th International Symposium on Oriental Ancient Documents Studies 68 Alexandra Perednya On the qy-a ( ki-a ) Form in the Old Uyghur The material of the manuscripts written in the Old Uyghur give an opportunity to allocate a very rare and unique grammatical form — the - qy-a (-ki-a) : …ötrü oγul qy-a aru aru uluγatdy///  (Hüen. V 69, 16–17) after boy_DIM handsome handsome grow-PST «…then the boy grew to become very handsome…»; …näkül öŋi-si syčγan  qy-a  išič xu-a üzä aqtyn-yp sumir taγ-qa aqtynmaq alp er-mäz_er-miš timäk-dä…  (Hüen. VIII 15, 18–21) what difference-POSS.3SG mouse_DIM pot flower on climb-CONV Meru mountain-DAT climb strong be-N.PTCP-PST say-LOC «…And how does he differ from a mouse that climbed to the top of a flower pot and said: actually it is not so hard to climb to the top of Mount Meru…»; …ögük  ki-a m-in jämä jittür-tim (Suv 623 14) child_DIM_POSS.1SG-ACC again lose-PST «…my child I lost…». The above given examples allow us to allocate this form into a separate grammatical category. In the last example ki-a  is used after the base form, but followed by the 1 st person singular possession form and the accusative case suffix. The above given examples also witness the fact that the qy-a  form undergoes the vowel and consonant harmony. Thus we can hypothetically predictthatthevowelinthe qy-a formincludedafrontvowel.This,infact,shows grammaticalization of a form which is traditionally considered as a particle and which is turning into a morpheme. The morpheme qy-a  should be seen as an inflectional form which transmits an information not only about the size of the objects, but, most likely, gives the speaker attitude towards the objects. Key words: in the Old Uyghur language, grammar, qy-a (ki-a) form, inflectional form.