Abstract
This paper proposes an account for the four auxiliaries in Kazakh that express the imperfective
aspect. The main factors – the auxiliary, the main verb, their inflections and the aspectual
specifications reveal a complicated system, which can be captured with an appropriate monotonic, multiple inheritance type hierarchy using online-type construction with the implementation of Pāṇinian competition. This analysis sheds light to a very different auxiliary system that we find in Indo-European languages.