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Book SynopsisProfessor György Kara, an outstanding member of academia, celebrated his 80th birthday recently. His students and colleagues commemorate this occasion with papers on a wide range of topics in Altaic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture and languages of the steppe civilizations.
Table of ContentsForeword Preface List of Figures and Tables 1 The Yibu (譯部) Chapter of the Lulongsai lüe (盧龍塞略) Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky 2 Middle Turkic Dialects as Seen in Chinese Transcriptions from the Mongol Yuan Era Christopher P. Atwood 3 The Scent of a Woman: Allegorical Misogyny in a Sa skya pa Treatise on Salvation in Pre-Classical Mongolian Verse Brian Baumann 4 Some Aspects of the Language Usage of Darkhat and Oirat Female Shamans Ágnes Birtalan 5 Some Remarks on Page Fragments of a Mongol Book of Taoist Content from Qaraqota Otgon Borjigin 6 Pronouns and Other Terms of Address in Khalkha Mongolian Benjamin Brosig 7 Past Tenses, Diminutives and Expressive Palatalization: Typology and the Limits of Internal Reconstruction in Tungusic José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente 8 From Tatar to Magyar: Notes on Central Eurasian Ethnonyms in -r Juha Janhunen 9 A Mongolian Text of Confession Olivér Kápolnás and Alice Sárközi 10 The Role of Ewenki VgV in Mongolic Reconstructions Bayarma Khabtagaeva 11 Contraction, anticipation et persévération en mongol xalx : quelques réflexions Jacques Legrand 12 The Dongxiang (Santa) Ending -ğuŋ and Its Allies Hans Nugteren 13 Sino-Mongolica in the Qırġız Epic Poem Kökötöy’s Memorial Feast by Saġımbay Orozbaq uulu Daniel Prior 14 Badəkšaan Elisabetta Ragagnin 15 Kollektaneen zum Uigurischen Wörterbuch: Zwei Weisheiten und Drei Naturen im Uigurischen Buddhismus Von Klaus Röhrborn 16 Some Medical and Related Terms in Middle Mongɣol Volker Rybatzki 17 Reflexes of the *VgV and *VxV Groups in the Mongol Vocabulary of the Sino-Mongol Glossary Dada yu/Beilu yiyu (Late 16th–Early 17th Cent.) Pavel Rykin 18 Early Serbi-Mongolic—Tungusic Lexical Contact: Jurchen Numerals from the 室韋 Shirwi (Shih-wei) in North China Andrew Shimunek 19 On the Phenomeno-Logic behind some Mongolian Verbs Ines Stolpe and Alimaa Senderjav 20 Spelling Variation in Cornelius Rahmn’s Kalmuck Manuscripts as Evidence for Sound Changes Jan-Olof Svantesson 21 Four Tungusic Etymologies Alexander Vovin 22 Zum Werktitel mongolischer Texte seit dem 17. Jahrhundert Michael Weiers 23 The Last-Words of Xiao Chala Xianggong in Khitan Script Wu Yingzhe 24 Proper Names in the Oirat Translation of “The Sutra of Golden Light” Natalia Yakhontova Tabula gratulatoria Index
