Overview
The Yiyu (Beilu yiyu) – a Chinese-Middle Mongol glossary included in the Dengtan Bijiu (a military handbook for generals compiled during the Wanli period of the Ming dynasty) – is an important source regarding the history of the Mongolian language. The manuscript version of Yiyu is a copy made for Louis Ligeti on his first expedition to China (1928-31) and is now conserved by the Oriental Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In his edition the author reconstructs the often chaotic material of the Yiyu with the help of other available Yiyu texts. Next to its contribution in transcription and reconstruction, this work is indispensable in terms of linguistic analysis, dealing with much investigated issues of Middle Mongol (e.g. suffixes, unstable -n nouns, representation of the initial h-, loanwords in the lexicon, lack or presence of intervocalic velar fricatives etc.). A full word index, a classical Mongolian reference wordlist and four other indexes are included in this edition as well as the facsimile photocopies of both the manuscript and a block print version of the glossary.
Full Product Details
Author: Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky ,
Professor Alexander Vovin
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Global Oriental Ltd
Volume: 5
Weight: 0.481kg
ISBN: 9781905246021
ISBN 10: 1905246021
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 November 2009
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Format: Hardback
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Reviews
The publication of this valuable work is a welcome event in Mongolian Studies. This volume will be a useful tool for all those dealing wiht the Middle Mongolian language. Akos Apatoczky deserves praise for his thorough work. As a student of Sino-Mongolian Studies he is a worthy follower of the path of his outstanding masters, Louis Ligeti and Gyoergy Kara. - Alice Sarkoezi
The publication of this valuable work is a welcome event in Mongolian Studies. This volume will be a useful tool for all those dealing wiht the Middle Mongolian language. Akos Apatoczky deserves praise for his thorough work. As a student of Sino-Mongolian Studies he is a worthy follower of the path of his outstanding masters, Louis Ligeti and Gyorgy Kara. - Alice Sarkozi
The publication of this valuable work is a welcome event in Mongolian Studies. This volume will be a useful tool for all those dealing wiht the Middle Mongolian language. Ákos Apatóczky deserves praise for his thorough work. As a student of Sino-Mongolian Studies he is a worthy follower of the path of his outstanding masters, Louis Ligeti and György Kara. - Alice Sárközi
Author Information
Alexander Vovin, Professor of East Asian Languages at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, has published extensively, including some hundred articles, on Japanese, Ainu, Korean and Tungusic, as well as other languages of East and Inner Asia. Among his major works are A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu (Brill, 1993), A Reference Grammar of Classical Japanese Prose (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) and Nihongo Keitoron no Genzai/ Perspectives on the Origins of the Japanese Language (a bilingual Japanese-English volume co-edited with Osada Toshiki, the International Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, 2003).
