Studies in Turkic and Mongolic linguistics / / Gerard Clauson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817871003321
• Autore: Clauson Gerard <1891->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2002
• ISBN: 1-134-43011-6; 1-134-43012-4; 1-280-23936-0; 9786610239368; 0-203-98755-1
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (195 p.)
• Collana: Royal Asiatic Society books
• Disciplina: 494.3
• Soggetti: Turkic languages; Turkic languages - History; Mongolian languages; Mongolian languages - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previous ed.: 1962.; Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER I THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE TURKISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES; CHAPTER II THE EVOLUTION OF THE TURKISH LANGUAGES; CHAPTER III THE TRANSCRIPTION OF TURKISH LANGUAGES; CHAPTER IV THE ARRANGEMENT OF WORDS IN A HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF TURKISH; CHAPTER V THE EVIDENCE REGARDING THE PHONETIC STRUCTURE OF PRE-EIGHTH CENTURY TURKISH; CHAPTER VI THE STRUCTURE OF THE WORD IN PRE-EIGHTH CENTURY TURKISH; CHAPTER VII THE SUFFIXES IN PRE-EIGHTH CENTURY TURKISH; CHAPTER VIII THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PHONETIC STRUCTURE OF PRE-EIGHTH CENTURY TURKISHCHAPTER IX THE LATER HISTORY OF THE UYGUR ALPHABET; CHAPTER X THE PHONETIC STRUCTURE OF PRE-THIRTEENTH CENTURY MONGOLIAN; CHAPTER XI THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TURKISH AND MONGOLIAN; EPILOGUE; ADDENDUM; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: This book, now back in print having been unavailable for many years, is one of the most important contributions to Turkic and Mongolic linguistics, and to the contentious 'Altaic theory'. Proponents of the theory hold that Turkish is part of the Altaic family, and that Turkish accordingly exists in parallel with Mongolic and Tungusic-Manchu. Whatever the truth of this theory, Gerard Clauson's erudite and vigorously expressed views, based as they were on a remarkable knowledge of the lexicon of the Altaic languages and his outstanding work in the field of Turkish lexicography, continues to com