New Materials on the Khitan Small Script
A Critical Edition of Xiao Dilu & Yelü Xiangwen
Biographical note
Wu Yingzhe is Associate Professor at the School of Mongolian Studies, Inner Mongolia University. He has specialized in Khitan studies since the early 1990s and has been active both locating previously unknown inscriptions and studying them from the linguistic and philological points of view.
Juha Janhunen is Professor at the Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki, and an Honorary Professor of Inner Mongolia University. He has worked on comparative Altaic issues, including Khitan, since the 1970s, and has also had field projects in various parts of Northeast Asia. He is the author of Manchuria: An Ethnic History and the editor of The Mongolic Languages.
Juha Janhunen is Professor at the Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki, and an Honorary Professor of Inner Mongolia University. He has worked on comparative Altaic issues, including Khitan, since the 1970s, and has also had field projects in various parts of Northeast Asia. He is the author of Manchuria: An Ethnic History and the editor of The Mongolic Languages.
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This book sets out to rationalize the meaning of Korean intonation, especially the boundary tones, illustrating a three-way relationship i.e., a specific meaning delivered by a certain type of boundary tone and a certain type of morphological marker in natural conversation data.
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Together with Part 1 of the same grammar (Sources, Script and Phonology, Lexicon and Nominals), this two-volume set represents the most detailed and exhaustive description ever done of any language, including Japanese of the Old Japanese language of the Yamato region during the Asuka Nara period.
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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.
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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 ...
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This work will be useful as a reference tool for those interested in the history of the Mongolic languages providing them with a significant body of lexicon from a late Middle Mongol vernacular source.
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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.
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This is the first detailed descriptive grammar in English dedicated to the Western Old Japanese, which was spoken in the Kansai region of Japan during the seventh and eighth centuries. The grammar is divided into two volumes, with the first dealing with sources, script, phonology, lexicon and ...
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This book looks into the accentual history of the Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages. Applying the comparative method, the author has reconstructed the accentual history of the Japonic languages. The reconstruction is based on modern dialects of Japanese and Ryukyuan, and also on historical ...
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Linguists and specialists are familiar with the name Ket, which designates a small ethnic group on the Yenisei and their language. Ket is a severely endangered language with today less than 500 native speakers. Together with Yugh, Kott, Arin, Assan and Pumpokol, it forms the Yeniseic family of ...
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