Manchu Grammar, Part 8
Liliya M. Gorelova
With the help of this long-awaited comprehensive grammar of Manchu, the official language in China during the Qing dynasty, access can be gained to the numerous official documents of more than 250 years of Chinese history immediately preceding the Republic.
Taking into full account the scholarship on the subject from both China and Russia, the volume provides full coverage of the Manchu writing system, morphology and phonology. Special attention is given to syntax, until recently a conspicuous hiatus in Manchu linguistic studies. Also dealt with is Sibe, which the author convincingly argues to be a direct successor of Manchu vernacular, and its relation with classical Manchu. Many grammatical problems of Manchu are considered in a wider framework of the Manchu-Tungusic languages - the group to which Manchu belongs. Dr. Gorelova's grammar is a true reference work, indispensable for students of (Qing) China and Oriental languages. |
Contents
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a Brief Survey of their History
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The Manchu Language and its Dialects
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30 |
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Most Multinational Regions of China
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Copyright
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According accusative actant adjectives adverbial modifiers adverbs akū Altaic languages analytical constructions attributive baita be(AUX)-CONV beye bithe Chinese classical Manchu clauses combination complex sentences component conditional converb conjunctions consonants COP.NEG copula Crossley dative declension denote derived dialect direct object Evenki Evenki language examples expressed function gemu genitive gisun Gorelova grammatical graphemes gūnin imperfect converb indicate inenggi jaka jakade Jurchens Lebedeva letter lexical linguistic Manchu language marker meaning min-i Mohe Möllendorff Mongolian morphological negative form niyalma nominal words normally nouns Nurhaci occur particle Pashkov perfect participle person phonetic plural postpositions predicative constructions pronominal pronouns Qing relationships rendered Russian sain sargan say-CONV semantics seme SG)-GEN Sibe simple sentence sin-i smth sound structure subordinate predicative suffix ngge Sushens syllable syntactic syntactic words tere there.is.not Tungusic languages uthai uttu verb verbal forms verbal stem vowel harmony word form word-combinations you(SG you(si/sin Zakharov