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Professor Gyoergy 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.
Contents
ForewordPrefaceList of Figures and Tables1 The Yibu ( ) Chapter of the Lulongsai lue ( )Akos Bertalan Apatoczky2 Middle Turkic Dialects as Seen in Chinese Transcriptions from the Mongol Yuan EraChristopher P. Atwood3 The Scent of a Woman: Allegorical Misogyny in a Sa skya pa Treatise on Salvation in Pre-Classical Mongolian VerseBrian Baumann4 Some Aspects of the Language Usage of Darkhat and Oirat Female ShamansAgnes Birtalan5 Some Remarks on Page Fragments of a Mongol Book of Taoist Content from QaraqotaOtgon Borjigin6 Pronouns and Other Terms of Address in Khalkha MongolianBenjamin Brosig7 Past Tenses, Diminutives and Expressive Palatalization: Typology and the Limits of Internal Reconstruction in TungusicJose Andres Alonso de la Fuente8 From Tatar to Magyar: Notes on Central Eurasian Ethnonyms in -rJuha Janhunen9 A Mongolian Text of ConfessionOliver Kapolnas and Alice Sarkoezi10 The Role of Ewenki VgV in Mongolic ReconstructionsBayarma Khabtagaeva11 Contraction, anticipation et perseveration en mongol xalx : quelques reflexionsJacques Legrand12 The Dongxiang (Santa) Ending -gun and Its AlliesHans Nugteren13 Sino-Mongolica in the Qirgiz Epic Poem Koekoetoey's Memorial Feast by Sagimbay Orozbaq uuluDaniel Prior14 BadaksaanElisabetta Ragagnin15 Kollektaneen zum Uigurischen Woerterbuch: Zwei Weisheiten und Drei Naturen im Uigurischen BuddhismusVon Klaus Roehrborn16 Some Medical and Related Terms in Middle Mong olVolker Rybatzki17 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 Rykin18 Early Serbi-Mongolic-Tungusic Lexical Contact: Jurchen Numerals from the Shirwi (Shih-wei) in North ChinaAndrew Shimunek19 On the Phenomeno-Logic behind some Mongolian VerbsInes Stolpe and Alimaa Senderjav20 Spelling Variation in Cornelius Rahmn's Kalmuck Manuscripts as Evidence for Sound ChangesJan-Olof Svantesson21 Four Tungusic EtymologiesAlexander Vovin22 Zum Werktitel mongolischer Texte seit dem 17. JahrhundertMichael Weiers23 The Last-Words of Xiao Chala Xianggong in Khitan ScriptWu Yingzhe24 Proper Names in the Oirat Translation of "The Sutra of Golden Light"Natalia YakhontovaTabula gratulatoriaIndex
