Introduction to Altaic Philology
Author | : Igor de Rachewiltz |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2010-05-31 |
ISBN-13 | : 9789004188891 |
ISBN-10 | : 9004188894 |
Rating | : 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Download or read book Introduction to Altaic Philology written by Igor de Rachewiltz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many excellent books dealing with Old Turkic, Preclassical and Classical Mongolian and Literary Manchu individually, but none providing in a single volume a comprehensive survey of all the three major Altaic languages. The present volume attempts to fill this gap; at the same time it reviews also the much debated Altaic Hypothesis. The book is intended for use by students at university level as well as by general readers with a basic knowledge of linguistics. The 39 language texts analysed in the volume are discussed within their historical and cultural context, thus vastly enlarging the scope of the purely linguistic investigation.