A Grammar Of Old TurkicBRILL, 2004 M01 1 - 575 pages Old Turkic is the earliest, directly attested Turkic language. This original work describes the grammar of Old Turkic. The language is documented in inscriptions in the 'runic' script in Mongolia and the Yenisey basin, from the seventh to the tenth century; in Uygur manuscripts from Chinese Turkestan in Uygur, and in runic and other scripts (comprising religious - mostly Buddhist -, legal, literary, medical, folkloric, astrological and personal material), from the ninth to the thirteenth century; and in eleventh-century Qarakhanid texts, mostly in Arabic writing. All aspects of Old Turkic are dealt with: phonology, subphonemic phenomena and morphophonology, and the way these are reflected in the various scripts, derivational and inflectional morphology, grammatical categories, word classes, syntax, textual and extra-textual reference and other means of coherence, lexical fields, discourse types, phraseology as well as stylistic, dialect and diachronic variation. |
Contents
MORPHOPHONOLOGY | 37 |
3 | 279 |
SYNTAX | 357 |
62 | 448 |
PRAGMATICS AND MODALITY | 515 |
NOTES ON THE LEXICON | 531 |
TITLE ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES | 537 |
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2nd person 3rd person accusative ädgü adjectives adnominal adverb anča aorist appears ärki ärmiš ärsär ärti ärür attested birlä bodun Brāhmī Buddha Buddhist burxan consonants dative dialect discussed in section DKPAMPb Doerfer examples expressed Gabain genitive govern Ht VII instances IrqB käntü kärgäk kayu kiši kün lexemes locative main clause MaitrH XV män Manichæan Manichæan texts Maue meaning Middle Turkic mIš nominal noun phrases Oguz Old Turkic onset Orkhon inscriptions Orkhon Turkic OTWF participle particle phoneme plural possessive suffix postposition predicate pronouns Proto-Turkic Qarakhanid quoted reference Röhrborn runiform inscriptions sän script sentence signifies Sogdian sources spelled stems subordinate syllable täg täŋri Tekin temporal Tibetan script translated TT VIII Tuñ Türk Turkic languages turur üčün Uygur üzä variant verb forms verbal vowel converb word Yenisey ymä Zieme
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