There are many excellent books dealing with Old Turkic, Preclassical and Classical Mongolian and Literary Manchu individually, but none providing in a single volume a comprehensive survey of all the three major Altaic languages. The present volume attempts to fill this gap; at the same time it reviews also the much debated Altaic Hypothesis. The book is intended for use by students at university level as well as by general readers with a basic knowledge of linguistics. The 39 language texts analysed in the volume are discussed within their historical and cultural context, thus vastly enlarging the scope of the purely linguistic investigation.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"...the book represents the best traditions of classical philology (...) it is comprehensive and of very high quality. Students and teacher who will use this book will get a good philological foundation for their studies in Altaic philology." - Andras Rona-Tas, in: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hung. 64/2 (2011)
"Vieles, was ich aus Anfaengertagen zu 'kennen', gar zu 'wissen' glaubte, wurde mir hier neu erschlossen und die souveraene Beherrschung des gesamten Stoffes durch die Verfasser bietet praktisch auf jeder Seite reiche (und manchmal beschaemende) Belehrung. Das Buch ist hervorragend zum Selbststudium geeignet und ist selbstverstaendlich auch eine ideale Grundlage fuer Lehrveranstaltungen. (...) Das Wissen, das es vermittelt, kann quasi als 'Goldstandard' fuer die Ausbildung angehender Altaisten betrachtet werden (...) und das dem erfahrenen Altaisten eine Fuelle neuer Erkentnisse und Einsichten bietet (...) mit Abstand das beste, das Rez. je gesehen hat, kurz gesagt: Ihre Reise durch das Labyrinth der altaischen Philologie beginnt mit diesem Buch." - Stefan Georg, Bonn, in: Ural-Altaische Jahrbuecher 25 (2012/2013)
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70 s/w Abbildungen
70 Illustrations, black and white
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Höhe: 248 mm
Breite: 172 mm
Dicke: 32 mm
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ISBN-13
978-90-04-18528-9 (9789004185289)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Igor de Rachewiltz, Ph. D. (1961) in History at the Australian National University, Canberra, and currently Emeritus Fellow in the same university, is a historian and philologist specializing in China and Mongolia in the 12th - 14th centuries. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on the subject, his major work being an annotated translation of the epic chronicle known as The Secret History of the Mongols (Brill, 2004).
Volker Rybatzki, Ph. D. (2006) in Altaic Studies, University of Helsinki, is Associate Professor of Altaic Studies at Helsinki University. He has published chiefly on Mongolian language and culture from the 13th to the 15th centuries. He is at present engaged in the preparation of an etymological dictionary of the Mongolian language in that period.
