
A Grammar of Old Turkic
Marcel Erdal(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 28. July 2004
Book
Hardback
588 pages
978-90-04-10294-1 (ISBN)
Description
Old Turkic is the earliest, directly attested Turkic language. This original work describes the grammar of Old Turkic.
The language is documented in inscriptions in the 'runic' script in Mongolia and the Yenisey basin, from the seventh to the tenth century; in Uygur manuscripts from Chinese Turkestan in Uygur, and in runic and other scripts (comprising religious - mostly Buddhist -, legal, literary, medical, folkloric, astrological and personal material), from the ninth to the thirteenth century; and in eleventh-century Qarakhanid texts, mostly in Arabic writing.
All aspects of Old Turkic are dealt with: phonology, subphonemic phenomena and morphophonology, and the way these are reflected in the various scripts, derivational and inflectional morphology, grammatical categories, word classes, syntax, textual and extra-textual reference and other means of coherence, lexical fields, discourse types, phraseology as well as stylistic, dialect and diachronic variation.
The language is documented in inscriptions in the 'runic' script in Mongolia and the Yenisey basin, from the seventh to the tenth century; in Uygur manuscripts from Chinese Turkestan in Uygur, and in runic and other scripts (comprising religious - mostly Buddhist -, legal, literary, medical, folkloric, astrological and personal material), from the ninth to the thirteenth century; and in eleventh-century Qarakhanid texts, mostly in Arabic writing.
All aspects of Old Turkic are dealt with: phonology, subphonemic phenomena and morphophonology, and the way these are reflected in the various scripts, derivational and inflectional morphology, grammatical categories, word classes, syntax, textual and extra-textual reference and other means of coherence, lexical fields, discourse types, phraseology as well as stylistic, dialect and diachronic variation.
Reviews / Votes
'The book will doubtlessly have long-lasting value to the field.'Ludek Hrebicek, Archiv Orientalni, 2005.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
1156 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-10294-1 (9789004102941)
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Marcel Erdal, Ph.D. (1976) in Old Turkic at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor for Turcology and Linguistics at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is Professor for Turcology at the University of Frankfurt since 1993.