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| Author | : Yingzhe Wu |
| Publisher | : Global Oriental |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2014-09-03 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9004212825 |
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survey of Khitan Small Script studies, accompanied by a critical analysis of two recently discovered and previously unpublished epigraphic documents.
| Author | : Daniel Kane |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 900416829X |
The Kitans established the Liao dynasty in northern China, which lasted for over two centuries (916-1125). In this survey the reader will find what is currently known about the Kitan language and scripts. The language was very likely distantly related to Mongolian, with two quite different scripts in use. A few generations after their state was defeated, almost all trace of the Kitan spoken and written languages disappeared, except a few words in Chinese texts. Over the past few decades, however, inscriptions from the tombs of the Liao emperors and the Kitan aristocracy have been at least partially deciphered, resulting in a significant increase of our knowledge of the Kitan lexicon, morphology and syntax.
| Author | : Peter Francis Kornicki |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 423 |
| Release | : 2018-01-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0192518690 |
Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia - not only China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, but also societies that no longer exist, such as the Tangut and Khitan empires. Peter Kornicki takes the reader from the early centuries of the common era, when the Chinese script was the only form of writing and Chinese Buddhist, Confucian, and medical texts spread throughout East Asia, through the centuries when vernacular scripts evolved, right up to the end of the nineteenth century when nationalism created new roles for vernacular languages and vernacular scripts. Through an examination of oral approaches to Chinese texts, it shows how highly-valued Chinese texts came to be read through the prism of the vernaculars and ultimately to be translated. This long process has some parallels with vernacularization in Europe, but a crucial difference is that literary Chinese was, unlike Latin, not a spoken language. As a consequence, people who spoke different East Asian vernaculars had no means of communicating in speech, but they could communicate silently by means of written conversation in literary Chinese; a further consequence is that within each society Chinese texts assumed vernacular garb: in classes and lectures, Chinese texts were read and declaimed in the vernaculars. What happened in the nineteenth century and why are there still so many different scripts in East Asia? How and why were Chinese texts dethroned, and what replaced them? These are some of the questions addressed in Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia.
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| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 2018-01-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9004351981 |
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.
| Author | : Immanuel Ness |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 2014-11-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1118970594 |
Previously published as the first volume of The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, this work is devoted exclusively to prehistoric migration, covering all periods and places from the first hominin migrations out of Africa through the end of prehistory. Presents interdisciplinary coverage of this topic, including scholarship from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, genetics, biology, linguistics, and more Includes contributions from a diverse international team of authors, representing 17 countries and a variety of disciplines Divided into two sections, covering the Pleistocene and Holocene; each section examines human migration through chapters that focus on different regional and disciplinary lenses
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| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 371 |
| Release | : 2021-07-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 900444856X |
This volume is a tribute to Professor Vovin’s research and a summary of the latest developments in his fields of expertise.
| Author | : Martine Robbeets |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 984 |
| Release | : 2020-05-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0198804628 |
The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages provides a comprehensive account of the Transeurasian languages, and is the first major reference work in the field since 1965. The term 'Transeurasian' refers to a large group of geographically adjacent languages that includes five uncontroversial linguistic families: Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic. The historical connection between these languages, however, constitutes one of the most debated issues in historical comparative linguistics. In the present book, a team of leading international scholars in the field take a balanced approach to this controversy, integrating different theoretical frameworks, combining both functional and formal linguistics, and showing that genealogical and areal approaches are in fact compatible with one another. The volume is divided into five parts. Part I deals with the historical sources and periodization of the Transeurasian languages and their classification and typology. In Part II, chapters provide individual structural overviews of the Transeurasian languages and the linguistic subgroups that they belong to, while Part III explores Transeurasian phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, and semantics from a comparative perspective. Part IV offers a range of areal and genealogical explanations for the correlations observed in the preceding parts. Finally, Part V combines archaeological, genetic, and anthropological perspectives on the identity of speakers of Transeurasian languages. The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages will be an indispensable resource for specialists in Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages and for anyone with an interest in Transeurasian and comparative linguistics more broadly.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : China |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Martine Robbeets |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 568 |
| Release | : 2015-07-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110399946 |
This book deals with shared verb morphology in Japanese and other languages that have been identified as Transeurasian (traditionally: “Altaic”) in previous research. It analyzes shared etymologies and reconstructed grammaticalizations with the goal to provide evidence for the genealogical relatedness of these languages.
| Author | : Juha Janhunen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2006-01-27 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1135796904 |
Once the rulers of the largest land empire that has ever existed on earth, the historical Mongols of Chinggis Khan left a linguistic heritage which today survives in the form of more than a dozen different languages, collectively termed Mongolic. For general linguistic theory, the Mongolic languages offer interesting insights to problems of areal typology and structural change. An understanding of the Mongolic language family is also a prerequisite for the study of Mongolian and Central Eurasian history and culture. This volume is the first comprehensive treatment of the Mongolic languages in English, written by an international team of specialists.
