Philology of the grasslands : : essays in Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic studies / / edited by Akos Bertalan Apatoczky, Christopher P. Atwood ; guest editor Bela Kempf.

• TeilnehmendeR: Kara, György.; Apatóczky, Ákos Bertalan.; Atwood, Christopher Pratt, 1964-; Kempf, Béla, 1976-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Languages of Asia 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 pages).

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Foreword -- Preface -- Tabula gratulatoria -- The Yibu (譯部) Chapter of the Lulongsai lüe (盧龍塞略) / Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky -- Middle Turkic Dialects as Seen in Chinese Transcriptions from the Mongol Yuan Era / Christopher P. Atwood -- The Scent of a Woman: Allegorical Misogyny in a Sa skya pa Treatise on Salvation in Pre-Classical Mongolian Verse / Brian Baumann -- Some Aspects of the Language Usage of Darkhat and Oirat Female Shamans / Ágnes Birtalan -- Some Remarks on Page Fragments of a Mongol Book of Taoist Content from Qaraqota / Otgon Borjigin -- Pronouns and Other Terms of Address in Khalkha Mongolian / Benjamin Brosig -- Past Tenses, Diminutives and Expressive Palatalization: Typology and the Limits of Internal Reconstruction in Tungusic / José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente -- From Tatar to Magyar: Notes on Central Eurasian Ethnonyms in -r / Juha Janhunen -- A Mongolian Text of Confession / Olivér Kápolnás and Alice Sárközi -- The role of Ewenki VgV in Mongolic Reconstructions / Bayarma Khabtagaeva -- Contraction, anticipation et persévération en mongol xalx : quelques réflexions / Jacques Legrand -- The Dongxiang (Santa) Ending -ğuŋ and Its Allies / Hans Nugteren -- Sino-Mongolica in the Qırġız Epic Poem Kökötöy’s Memorial Feast by Saġımbay Orozbaq uulu / Daniel Prior -- Badəkšaan / Elisabetta Ragagnin -- Kollektaneen zum Uigurischen Wörterbuch: Zwei Weisheiten und Drei Naturen im uigurischen Buddhismus / Klaus Röhrborn -- Some Medical and Related Terms in Middle Mongɣol / Volker Rybatzki -- Reflexes of the *VgV and *VxV Groups in the Mongol Vocabulary of the Sino-Mongol Glossary Dada yu/Beilu yiyu (Late 16th–Early 17th Cent.) / Pavel Rykin -- Early Serbi-Mongolic–Tungusic Lexical Contact: Jurchen Numerals from the 室韋 Shirwi (Shih-wei) in North China / Andrew Shimunek -- On the Phenomeno-Logic behind some Mongolian Verbs / Ines Stolpe and Alimaa Senderjav -- Spelling Variation in Cornelius Rahmn’s Kalmuck Manuscripts as Evidence for Sound Changes / Jan-Olof Svantesson -- Four Tungusic Etymologies / Alexander Vovin -- Zum Werktitel mongolischer Texte seit dem 17. Jahrhundert / Michael Weiers -- The Last-Words of Xiao Chala Xianggong in Khitan Script / Wu Yingzhe -- Proper Names in the Oirat Translation of “The Sutra of Golden Light” / Natalia Yakhontova.