Materials for the study of Tungusic languages and folklore / [Bronisaw Pisudski] ; reconstructed, translated, and edited by Alfred F. Majewicz ; with the assistance of Larisa V. Ozolina ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pisudski, Bronisaw.

Contributor:

Majewicz, Alfred F.

Ozolina, Larisa V.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Documentation ; 15-4.

Trends in linguistics. Documentation, 0179-8251 ; 15-4

Collected works of Bronisaw Pisudski ; v. 4

Standardized Title:

Works

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tungus-Manchu languages.

Tungusic peoples--Social life and customs.

Tungusic peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1418 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Volume 4 includes unique records of Orok (Uilta), a Tungusic language (dictionaries, texts, grammatical comments) noted down by Pilsudski directly from native informants at the beginning of the 20th century on Sakhalin. The original source material is identified with the help of - and confronted against - all the existing contemporary dictionaries with the assistance of leading specialists in the field (the Novosibirsk Avrorin group, also called the school of Manchu-Tungusologists). Abundant comparative data are quoted. All necessary introductory information and commentaries of ethnographic, h

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Table of contents

Acknowledgements / Majewicz, Alfred F.

Introduction

References and bibliography of works consulted

Bibliography of biographical material concerning and related to B. Piłsudski (addenda to CWBP 1, 37-52, CWBP 3, 54-105)

Bibliography of works by B. Piłsudski (addenda to CWBP 1, 53-69, CWBP 3, 106-114)

Selected bibliography of works on peoples investigated by B. Piłsudski and on related problems (addenda)

Abbreviations and symbols

Plates CCCV-CCCVII

I. Materials for the study of the Uilta / Orok language and folklore

Foreword by Władysław Kotwicz

Introduction to the Uilta (Orok) materials

Plates CCCVIII-CCCX

A Uilta (~Orok)-Polish-English dictionary. Introduction

A Uilta (~Orok)-Polish-English dictionary. Part 1: A-J

A Uilta (~Orok)-Polish-English dictionary. Part 2: K-Z

Plates CCCXI-CCCXII

Uilta (Orok) proper names (personal names, names of rivers, mountains, settlements)

Plates CCCXIII-CCCXVII

Uilta (Orok) Texts

Plates CCCXVIII-CCCXXIII

Grammatical remarks on the Uilta (Orok) language

Plates CCCXXIV-CCCXLIII

II. Materials for the study of the Ulchan / Olcha / Mangun / Nani language and folklore

Introduction to the Ulchan (Mangun) materials

Plates CCCXLIV-CCCXLVIII

Introduction by Bronisław Piłsudski

Few remarks on the orthography of Olchan [Ulchan] words

An Ulchan-Polish-English vocabulary

Ulchan proper names

Plates CCCXLIX-CCCL

Ulchan texts

Plates CCCLI-CCCLXXX

III. Materials for the study of the Nanaian / Gold language and folklore

Introduction to the Nanaian (Gold) materials

Nanaian vocabulary

Nanaian proper names

Nanaian riddles

A Nanaian prayer / molitva

Appendix 1. The phonemic system of the Nanaian language

Appendix 2. Index of words

Appendix 3. Index to Bronisław Piłsudski's ethnographic collections

Bibliography and references to Nanaian materials

Color photos 83-103

Color photos 104-123

Color photos 124-143

Color photos 144-162

Color photos 162-179

Color photos 180-192

Appendices

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

List of illustrations

Indices

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

3-11-022105-5

OCLC:

772845122