Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics

This book, now back in print having been unavailable for many years, is one of the most important contributions to Turkic and Mongolic linguistics, and to the contentious 'Altaic theory'. Proponents of the theory hold that Turkish is part of the Altaic family, and that Turkish accordingly exists in parallel with Mongolic and Tungusic-Manchu. Whatever the truth of this theory, Gerard Clauson's erudite and vigorously expressed views, based as they were on a remarkable knowledge of the lexicon of the Altaic languages and his outstanding work in the field of Turkish lexicography, continues to command respect and deserve attention. C. Edmund Bosworth Introduction 1. The Early History of the Turkish-speaking 2. The Evolution of the Turkish Languages 3. The Transcription of Turkish Languages 4. The arrangement of words in a historical dictionary of Turkish 5. The Evidence regarding the phoenetic structure of pre-eighth century Turkish 6. The structure of the word in pre-eighth century Turkish 7. The suffixes in pre-eighth century Turkish 8. The reconstruction of the phoenetic structure of pre-eighth century Turkish 9. The later history of the Uygur alphabet 10. The phoenetic structure of pre-thirteenth century Mongolian 11. The relationship between Turkish and Mongolian