Results 41 to 50 of about 1,498 (168)
Some thoughts on "Onomastica Manjurica" : strange or amusing names in Manchu [PDF]
, 2014 The main goal of this paper is to put forward the hypothesis that (Dynastic) Manchu depreciating names may be relics of a well-known Tungusic(-Eurasian) naming custom. It is a common practice among many Eurasian societies to name children with derogatory
Alonso de la Fuente, José Andrés
core +1 more source
The Unity and Diversity of Altaic [PDF]
, 2023 In popular conception, Altaic is often assumed to constitute a language family, or perhaps a phylum, but in reality, it involves a historical, areal, and typological complex of five separate language families of different origins-Turkic, Mongolic ...
Janhunen, Juha A.
core +1 more source
Japanese aru, iru, oru 'to be' : [oru ist bin aru] [PDF]
, 2010 Among the Japanese expressions for 'to be', the verbs aru (unmarked), iru (animate subject) and oru (humble variant of iru) are of special interest (cf. Martin 1975: 194f. for a descriptive account). We may look for cognates of these verbs in the (other)
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
core
Неофилология, 2016 The analysis of Yakut personal names is made to reveal the peculiarities of ethnic world view basing on the works of turkologist Nikolay Klimovich Antonov.
Egor Revolevich Nikolaev
doaj
Control and intermediate scrambling: An investigation of Kazakh relative clauses
GlossaThis paper investigates apparent locality violations in Kazakh (Turkic) relative clauses. The empirical starting point of this study is the configuration where the genitive-marked relative clause subject establishes agreement with the noun phrase ...
Eszter Ótott-Kovács
doaj +2 more sources
The Only Known Text from Bala, an Extinct Tungusic Language
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2021 Bala (bala1242) is an extinct Tungusic language formerly spoken in and around the Zhangguangcai mountain range in Northeast China. The language is only fragmentarily recorded. This study analyzes a song that is the only known text of this language and was written with the help of Chinese characters.
openaire +4 more sources
The causal-noncausal alternation in the Northern Tungusic languages of Russia
, 2022 Languages differ widely in the way they code causal-noncausal alternations, in which a verb event is either presented as happening by itself (the noncausal event) or as being instigated by an external causer (the causal event). Some languages, such as English, tend not to make a morphological distinction; rather, the same form of certain verbs can ...
Aralova, Natalia, Pakendorf, Brigitte
openaire +2 more sources
On writing syllabaries: Three episodes of transfer [PDF]
, 2000 published or submitted for publicationis peer ...
Daniels, Peter T.
core
Pronominal declension in Altaic languages
Linguistica Brunensia, 2015 This article gives a summary of the pronominal declension in the five branches of the Altaic lan-guages (till the present time it was not realized at least in any individual branch), reconstructs pro-nominal declension for the daughter protolanguages ...
Václav Blažek, Michal Schwarz
doaj
Tungus-Manchu Etymologies of Hydronyms of the Amur River Basin
Вопросы ономастикиThis article focuses on the toponymy of Siberia, presenting a detailed etymological analysis of the Amur River system from the perspective of spatial orientation among the Evenki and related Tungus-Manchu peoples.
Alexander Nikolaevich Varlamov +1 more
doaj +1 more source