1st Edition

Essays in Comparative Altaic Linguistics

By Denis Sinor Copyright 1997
466 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Preface, I. Le Probleme de Ia parenre des langues oumlo-altaiques, II. Geschichtliche Hypothese und Sprachwissenschaft in der ungarischen, finnisch-ugrischen und uralischen Sprachgeschichtsforschung, III. The Present State of Uralic and Altaic Comparative studies, IV. The Nature of Possessive Suffixes in Uralic and Altaic, V. The Problem of the Uralic-Altaic Relationship, VI. Ouralo-altaique--Indo-Europeen, VII. Qapqan, VIII. Sur les noms altarques de Ia licome, IX. On Water-Transport in Centtal Eurasia., X. Some Altaic Names for Bovines, XI. Tayar-tavar- tovar- tar- tara, XII. Yul., XIV. Two Altaic Etymologies, XV. Mongol and Turkic Words in the Latin Versions of John of Plano Carpini's 'Journey to the Mongols', XVI. The Mysterious 'Talu Sea' in Öljeitü's Letter to Philip the Fair of France, XVII. Altaica and Uralica, XVIII. An Altaic Word for 'Snowstorm', XIX. Samoyed and Ugric Elements in Old Turkic, XX. The Origin of Turkic bali'q 'town', XXI. 'Umay' a Mongoi Spirit Honored by the Türks, XXII. The Turkic Title tutuq Rehabilitated, XXIII. D'un morpheme particulierement repandu dans les langues ouralo-altarques, XXIV. On Some Ural-Altaic Plural Suffixes, XXV. A Uralic-Altaic Ordinal Suffix, XXVI. Un suffixe de lieu ouralo-altarque, XXVII The *-t- *-dLocal Suffix in Umlic and Altaic, XXVIII. Observations on a New Comparative Altaic Phonology, XXIX. Turkic yer 'ground, place, earth', XXX. Le transcription du mandjou, XXXI. Le verbe mandjou, XXXII. Some Remarks on Manchu Poetry, XXXIII. Linguistic remarks pertinent to John Bell's Journey from St. Petersburg to Peking (1719-1722), XXXIV. 'Urine'- 'star'- 'nail', XXXV. Umlo-Tunguz Lexical Correspondences, Index

Biography

Denis Sinor