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This text describes the grammar of Old Turkic, the earliest directly attested Turkic language, documented in 7th to 10th-century inscriptions in the ""runic"" script in Mongolia and the Yenisey basin, 9th to 13th-century Uygur manuscripts from Chinese Turkestan in Uygur, runic and other scripts (comprising religious, legal, literary, medical, folkloric, astrological and personal material) and 11th-century Qarakhanid texts, mostly in Arabic writing. All aspects of the language 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 class; syntax; lexical fields; discourse types; and phraseology as well as stylistic, dialect and diachronic variation.

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' The book will doubtlessly have long-lasting value to the field. ' Ludek Hrebicek, Archiv Orientalni , 2005.

'The book will doubtlessly have long-lasting value to the field.' Ludek Hrebicek, Archiv Orientalni, 2005.

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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.

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