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A Critical Edition of Xiao Dilu and Yelu Xiangwen
Wu Yingzhe and Juha Janhunen
INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI
KEY FEATURE(S) 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survey of Khitan Small Script studies, accompanied by a critical analysis of two recently discovered and previously unpublished epigraphic documents.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 by a preliminary translation, linguistic comments and index. This is the first ever critical edition of Khitan texts, and the two epigraphic documents analysed in the volume constitute a substantial addition to the extant corpus of Khitan Small Script materials.
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[Ainu-Russian Dictionary]
M.M. Dobrotvorskii
KEY FEATURE(S) This dictionary of the Ainu language is highly eclectic: it contains not only words from Sakhalin dialects collected personally by Dobrotvorskii, but also entries from other sources , such as the Japanese-Ainu dictionary Moshiogusa (1793).
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The Tibetan Loanwords of Monguor and the Development of the Archaic Dialects
A. Rona-Tas
KEY FEATURE(S) The specific linguistic position of Monguor is the outcome of the historical development of Monguor society. Monguors became farmers, were settled as border-guards of the Chinese Empire, and subsequently played an important part in the spreading of Tibetan Lamaism. Semantically, Monguor vocabulary reflects this background.
This work is particularly valuable for its extensive notes and the richness of sources cited.... |
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Akos B. Apatoczky
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Ivan Zakharov
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I.J. Schmidt
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Part 2: Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Conjunctions, Particles, Postpositions, Index
Alexander Vovin
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I
Together with the Part 1 of the same grammar (including the first four chapters on Sources, Script and phonology, Lexicon and Nominals), also published by Global Oriental (2005), this part with six ch... |
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A synchronic and diachronic study
Janick Wrona
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
The present study is the first large-scale investigation of the syntax of Old Japanese (mainly eighth century). It gives a detailed account of complement clauses and related constructions in Old Japan... |
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A Reconstruction of the
Proto-language of the Southern Ryukyus
John R. Bentley
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
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 valuabl... |
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Series Editor: Alexander Vovin
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I
This series, which will substantially redress the balance of underrepresentation in Western scholarship, deals predominantly with the following language families and isolates: Eskimo-Aleut, Chukchi-K... |
