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Old Japanese Complement System
A Synchronic and Diachronic Study
Av Janick Wrona
Inbunden, 2008
3009 kr
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The present study is the first large-scale investigation of the syntax of Old Japanese (mainly eighth-century Japanese). It gives a detailed account of complement clauses and related constructions in Old Japanese, based on an exhaustive investigation of the extant text corpus. The aim is twofold: …
Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak)
Part 1: Introduction, Phonology and Morphology
Av Stefan Georg
Inbunden, 2007
3337 kr
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Linguists and specialists on Siberia are generally familiar with the name Ket, which designates a small ethnic group on the Yenisei and their language, widely regarded as a linguistic enigma in many respects. Ket is a severely endangered language with today less than 500 native speakers. Together …
Yiyu - An Indexed Critical Edition of a Sixteenth Century Sino-Mongolian Glossary
Inbunden, 2009
2029 kr
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The Yiyu (Beilu yiyu) – a Chinese-Middle Mongol glossary included in the Dengtan Bijiu (a military handbook for generals compiled during the Wanli period of the Ming dynasty) – is an important source regarding the history of the Mongolian language. The manuscript version of Yiyu is a copy made for …
Early Persian Lexicography
Farhangs of the Eleventh to the Fifteenth Centuries
Inbunden, 2007
2693 kr
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This is the only study in a Western European language of an important part of the intellectual and cultural history of the Persianate world in its formative phase. Persian dictionaries (farhangs) of the Islamic era, compiled principally in India, represent a unique linguistic undertaking that has …
New Materials on the Khitan Small Script
A Critical Edition of Xiao Dilu & Yelü Xiangwen
Inbunden, 2010
2942 kr
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This volume contains a state-of-the-art survey of Khitan Small Script studies, accompanied by a critical analysis of two recently discovered and previously unpublished epigraphic documents. The texts are reproduced in the original script, in transcription as well as in facsimile, and are supported …
Esquisse de phonologie et de morphologie historique du tangoute
Inbunden, 2014
2808 kr
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Drawing from Tangut philological sources and from the author's personal fieldwork on the closely related Rgyalrong languages, this book is the first application of the comparative method to the study of Tangut. It contains a detailed account of Tangut historical phonology within the proposed …
Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai
Inbunden, 2015
3304 kr
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In A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai, Norquest presents a reconstruction of Proto-Hlai based on data from twelve Hlai languages spoken on Hainan, China. This reconstruction includes chapters on both the Proto-Hlai initials and rimes, and original sesquisyllabic forms are shown to be …
Translation Chapter of the Late Ming Lulongsai Lüe
Bilingual Sections of a Chinese Military Collection
Inbunden, 2016
2721 kr
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In this book, Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky offers a complete reconstruction of the Chinese-Mongol vocabulary of the 17th century comprehensive Chinese military work called Lulongsai lüe (盧龍塞略, LLSL), a document of key importance containing one of the last Sino-Mongol glossaries without proper critical …
Endangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond
Inbunden, 2016
2150 kr
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According to UNESCO, it is believed that at least half of the nearly 7,000 languages spoken around the world will cease to be used within the next 100 years. If this issue is neglected, people will lose not only their cultural heritage but also invaluable understandings about the history of all …
Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond
Festschrift presented to John B. Whitman
Inbunden, 2017
1989 kr
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The Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond presented in honour of Prof. John B. Whitman includes contributions by a range of mid-generation to senior scholars among his closest colleagues and collaborators representing the front line of contemporary …
Philology of the Grasslands
Essays in Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic Studies
Inbunden, 2018
2826 kr
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Professor György Kara, an outstanding member of academia, celebrated his 80th birthday recently. His students and colleagues commemorate this occasion with papers on a wide range of topics in Altaic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture and languages of the steppe civilizations.
"A Russian-Yakut-Ewenki Trilingual Dictionary" by N.V. Sljunin
Annotated Edition and Introduction
Av José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente
Inbunden, 2018
3141 kr
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In “A Russian-Yakut-Ewenki Trilingual Dictionary” by N.V. Sljunin, José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente offers the philological edition of a very early twentieth-century source of two indigenous languages from Siberia. This edition includes the facsimile of the original handwritten document.Whereas …
Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective
Inbunden, 2020
2700 kr
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Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective elevates historical morpho-syntax to a research priority in the field of Southeast Asian language history, transcending the traditional focus on phonology and lexicon. The volume contains eleven chapters covering a wide range of aspects of …
Middle Western Karaim
A Critical Edition and Linguistic Analysis of the pre-19th-Century Karaim Interpretations of Hebrew piyyutim
Inbunden, 2020
3759 kr
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This volume offers the first comprehensive study on the history of Middle Western Karaim dialects. The author provides a systematic description of sound changes dating from the 17th–19th-centuries and reconstructs their absolute- and relative chronologies. In addition, the main morphological …
Tangut Language and Manuscripts: An Introduction
Av Jinbo Shi
Inbunden, 2020
3868 kr
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This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the Tangut language and culture. Five of the fiſteen chapters survey the history of Western Xia and the evolution of Tangut Studies, including new advancements in the field, such as research on the recently decoded Tangut cursive writings found in …
Footprints of the Buddha
The Text and the Language
Inbunden, 2021
1958 kr
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“The echo of the stone/ where I carved the [Buddha’s] honorable footprints/ reaches the Heaven, […]”.This book presents the transcription, translation, and analysis of Chinese (753 AD) and Japanese inscriptions (end of the 8th century AD) found on two stones now in the possession of the Yakushiji …
Historical Linguistics and Philology of Central Asia
Essays in Turkic and Mongolic Studies
Inbunden, 2021
3022 kr
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András Róna-Tas, distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Szeged, Hungary, winner of several international prestigious prizes, has devoted his long academic career to the study of Chuvash, Turkic elements in Hungarian, Mongolic-Tibetan linguistic contacts, the Para-Mongolic language …
Endangered Languages of Northeast Asia
Inbunden, 2022
2324 kr
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Have you ever wondered what is really happening to minority languages of Northeast Asia and which efforts are being taken both by “westerners” and local people to preserve and promote them?Would you like to discover, uncover, and tackle deep linguistic questions of such small but highly important …
Language Endangerment and Obsolescence in East Asia
China, Japan, Siberia, and Taiwan
Inbunden, 2022
2169 kr
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What shapes and magnitude can language loss have in East Asian endangered languages? How does it differ with regards to the languages' historical development and sociolinguistic environment? This book surveys a number of minority and, in most cases, endangered languages spoken in China, Japan, …
Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima
A Minority South Ryukyuan Language of the Miyako Islands
Inbunden, 2024
2955 kr
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Spoken on Kurima, a miniscule island in the Miyakojima municipality in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, Kurima-Miyako is a South Ryukyuan topolect, a regional variant of the Miyako language. With most fluent speakers aged 80 or older and the island’s depopulation progressing, the topolect of Kurima faces …
Old Literary Tibetan
A Comprehensive Text Grammar Based on the Old Tibetan Annals
Inbunden, 2026
3742 kr
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Old Literary Tibetan: A Comprehensive Grammatical Description Based on the "Old Tibetan Annals" is a pioneering work in the field of Tibetan written languages, offering unprecedented insights into the earliest documented Tibetic language and one of the earliest written Trans-Himalayan languages. …
Radloff's Transcription
Decoding 19th-Century Turkic Pronunciation
Av Kamil Stachowski, Mateusz Urban
Inbunden, 2026
1250 kr
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The book offers a modern analysis of the transcription systems employed by Wilhelm Radloff in his seminal 19th-century works on Turkic languages: Proben der Volksliteratur der türkischen Stämme Süd-Sibiriens (1866–1907), Phonetik der nördlichen Türksprachen (1883), and Versuch eines Wörterbuches …
Language Contact in Northern China
Chinese and its Neighbouring Languages
Inbunden, 2025
2430 kr
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What happens when Chinese is shaped by centuries of contact with Mongolic, Tungusic, Turkic, and Tibetic languages? This volume explores this question through striking case studies of lects like Tangwang and Wutun, where Chinese exhibits unexpected features such as OV word order, case suffixes, and …
Linguistic History of the Forgotten Islands
A Reconstruction of the Proto-language of the Southern Ryūkyūs
Inbunden, 2008
2553 kr
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Sakishima comprises a group of islands situated between Okinawa and Taiwan, forming a culturally important bridge between Japan and Taiwan. Studies of the languages of the Ryukyuan islands are valuable for an accurate understanding of the linguistic history of Japan as a whole. This monograph is …
