Historical Linguistics and Philology of Central Asia

Essays in Turkic and Mongolic Studies
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-49995-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 498 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 983 g

Reihe: Languages of Asia

András Róna-Tas, distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Szeged, Hungary, winner of several international prestigious prizes, has devoted his long academic career to the study of Chuvash, Turkic elements in Hungarian, Mongolic-Tibetan linguistic contacts, the Para-Mongolic language Khitan and other Central Asian languages and cultures.
This book, presented to him in the occasion of his 90th birthday, contains a collection of papers in Turkic and Mongolic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture, and languages of the steppe civilizations. It is organized in three sections: Turkic Studies, Mongolic Studies, and Linguistic and cultural contacts of Altaic languages. It contains papers by some of most renowned experts in Central Asia Studies.

Contributors are Klára Agyagási, Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky, Ágnes Birtalan, Uwe Bläsing, Éva Csáki, Éva Ágnes Csató, Edina Dallos, Marcel Erdal, Stefan Georg, Peter Golden, Mária Ivanics, Juha Janhunen, Lars Johanson, György Kara, Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Jens Peter Laut, Raushangul Mukusheva, Olach Zsuzsanna, Benedek Péri, Elisabetta Ragagnin, Pavel Rykin, Uli Schamiloglu, János Sipos, István Vásáry, Alexander Vovin, Michael Weiers, Jens Wilkens, Wu Yingzhe, Emine Yilmaz, and Peter Zieme.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Khabtagaeva, Bayarma

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Tabula Gratulatoria

List of Illustrations and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Part 1 Turkic Studies

1 Pilot Entries of the Chuvash Etymological Dictionary under Preparation

Klára Agyagási

2 The Northwest Karaim Lord’s Prayer

Éva Á. Csató

3 Testing the Leipzig–Jakarta List on Turkic Languages Spoken in China

Marcel Erdal

4 The Kaepici [???????]

Peter Golden

5 Auf dem Wege der imperialen Eingliederung: Das Testament von ?Alikey Atalïq aus dem Jahre 1639

Mária Ivanics

6 The Chuvash Aorist

Lars Johanson

7 Zu den ‘gelehrten Entlehnungen’ indischer Herkunft im Alttürkischen

Jens Peter Laut

8 The Presentation of Kazakh Literature in Hungary: Research and Translation

Raushangul Mukusheva

9 Some Characteristics of Cardinal Numerals between 2 and 19 in Karaim Bible Translations: New Results Based on New Karaim Materials

Zsuzsanna Olach

10 Süci/sücü ‘wine’: The Career of an Old Turkic Word in Classical Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish Poetry

Benedek Péri

11 Sturtevant’s Law and Chuvash

Uli Schamiloglu

12 Magic, Sorcery and Related Terms in Early Turkic

Jens Wilkens

13 On the Expanded and Revised Second Edition of the Historical and Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish by Andreas Tietze

Emine Yilmaz

14 Baumwolle und Indigo

Peter Zieme

Part 2 Mongolic Studies

15 Handle with Care! The Limits of Use of Manuscripts Demonstrated on the Hua-Yi yiyu Texts of the National Central Library

Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky

16 Kalmyk Pipe and Mongolian Snuff Tobacco—as Means of Communication

Based on Gábor Bálint of Szentkatolna’s Linguistic Records, 1871–1873

Ágnes Birtalan

17 Issues of Comparative Uralic and Altaic Studies (9): Medial Intervocalic *k and *g in Mongolic

Juha Janhunen

18 Mongol kiged: A Verbal Adverb as Conjunction and Verbal Noun

György Kara

19 The ‘Oirat Fragment’ in the Erdeni tunumal neretü sudur and Its Linguistic Value

Pavel Rykin

20 A Previously Unknown Middle Mongolian Fragment from Pelliot Xixia Collection in the Bibliotèque Nationale de France

Alexander Vovin

21 Opfere im Tempel des Konfuzius! Ein kleiner Almanach der frühen Cing Zeit

Michael Weiers

22 On the Phonetic Value of Some Glyphs of Khitan Small Script

Wu Yingzhe

Part 3 Linguistic and Cultural Contacts of Altaic Languages

23 An Enigmatic Name for Wild Pears in Zazaki: A Study on Names of Pears in Asia Minor

Uwe Bläsing

24 Similarities in Hungarian and Turkic Folk Literature Folktales

Éva Csáki

25 The Arabic and Persian Layer of Names of Chuvash Mythical Creatures

Edina Dallos

26 On Perfectly Good-Looking Morphological Comparanda and Their (Sometimes, However, Lacking) Significance for Hypotheses of Language Relationship

Some Marginal Footnotes on the (Still Ongoing?) Altaic Debate

Stefan Georg

27 Siberian Draculesses

Elisabetta Ragagnin

28 A Recently Discovered Inner Mongolian Pentatonic Fifth Shifting Tunes, and Their Turkic and Hungarian Connections

János Sipos

29 Turcica and Mongolica in Mu?in al-Din Na?anzi’s Muntakhab al-Tavarikh

István Vásáry

30 On Color Terms in Dagur

Bayarma Khabtagaeva

Über Autor(innen)

Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Ph.D. (2007), habil., is Associate Professor in the Department of Altaic Studies at the University of Szeged, Hungary. Her works include Mongolic elements in Tuvan (Harrassowitz, 2009), The Ewenki dialects of Buryatia and their relationship to Khamnigan Mongol (Harrassowitz, 2017) and Language contact in Siberia. Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic loanwords in Yeniseian (Brill, 2019).