2nd Edition

Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics

By Gerard Clauson Copyright 2003
296 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
C. Edmund Bosworth Introduction 1. The Early History of the Turkish-speaking 2. The Evolution of the Turkish Languages 3. The Transcription of Turkish Languages 4. The arrangement of words in a historical dictionary of Turkish 5. The Evidence regarding the phoenetic structure of pre-eighth century Turkish 6. The structure of the word in pre-eighth century Turkish 7. The suffixes in pre-eighth century Turkish 8. The reconstruction of the phoenetic structure of pre-eighth century Turkish 9. The later history of the Uygur alphabet 10. The phoenetic structure of pre-thirteenth century Mongolian 11. The relationship between Turkish and Mongolian

Biography

Gerard Clauson