Yiyu : an indexed critical edition of a sixteenth century Sino-Mongolian glossary / Akos B. Apatoczky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Apatóczky, Ákos Bertalan.

Contributor:

Brill Academic Publishers.

Series:

Languages of Asia 5.

Languages of Asia ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mongolian language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Mongolian language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 et cetera). 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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Ákos B. Apatóczky

YIYU / Ákos B. Apatóczky

Some Typical Linguistic Features of BLYY / Ákos B. Apatóczky

Specialities and Errata of the Transcription Process / Ákos B. Apatóczky

Transcription and Reconstruction / Ákos B. Apatóczky

Index of Words / Ákos B. Apatóczky

List of Uninterpreted and Problematic Words / Ákos B. Apatóczky

Index of Transcriptive Characters / Ákos B. Apatóczky

Phonetic Value of Transcriptive Characters / Ákos B. Apatóczky

Index of Suffixes / Ákos B. Apatóczky

Index of Written Mongolian Equivalents / Ákos B. Apatóczky

Bibliography / Ákos B. Apatóczky

Facsimiles / Ákos B. Apatóczky.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612486197

1-282-48619-5

90-04-21295-7

OCLC:

816366840

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004212954 DOI