Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungus-Manchu Vocabularies: Etymological Research Methods and Objectives in the General Context of Contemporary Comparative-Historical Linguistics
Introduction. The article discusses contemporary comparative-historical Altaic studies and problems of interpreting genetic and areal relations between Altaiс languages in educational discourse. Goals. The paper seeks to show that available Altaic linguistic constructs are largely determined by iner...
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| description | Introduction. The article discusses contemporary comparative-historical Altaic studies and problems of interpreting genetic and areal relations between Altaiс languages in educational discourse. Goals. The paper seeks to show that available Altaic linguistic constructs are largely determined by inertial outdated ideas about supposed affinities between independent groups of languages, and that many research paradigms in contemporary Turkology and Mongolian studies still remain somewhat biased and, thus, aimed at previously known negative results. At the same time, those are achievements in general Altaic reconstructions that yield a most reliable apparatus to separate general Altaic lexemes and original protoforms — from multidirectional borrowings, the presence of which was never denied by Altaists. So, the study theoretically analyzes ideas about the nature of relations between Altaiс languages through the lens of experience accumulated by Indo-European linguistics focusing on a group of languages with undeniable genetic ties. Materials and Methods. The work newly compares some Mongolic, Tungus-Manchu, and Turkic words, which reveals new phonetic correspondences hidden by historical changes in phonetic word structures of Turkic and partly Tungus-Manchu languages. Results. The paper substantiates a genetic kinship of Altaiс languages, and eliminates the reconstruction drawbacks identified by Acad. B. A. Serebrennikov. Conclusions. When it comes to etymological research of Altaic vocabularies, experience of Indo-European linguistics represented in textbooks and etymological dictionaries may prove instrumental enough. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f0c99ce4a028423682b48bcdc76600322022-12-22T00:46:51ZengРоссийской академии наук, Калмыцкий научный центрOriental Studies2619-09902619-10082020-09-0113118319710.22162/2619-0990-2020-47-1-183-197Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungus-Manchu Vocabularies: Etymological Research Methods and Objectives in the General Context of Contemporary Comparative-Historical LinguisticsAlexey A. Burykin0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9119-2698Kalmyk Scientific Center of the RASIntroduction. The article discusses contemporary comparative-historical Altaic studies and problems of interpreting genetic and areal relations between Altaiс languages in educational discourse. Goals. The paper seeks to show that available Altaic linguistic constructs are largely determined by inertial outdated ideas about supposed affinities between independent groups of languages, and that many research paradigms in contemporary Turkology and Mongolian studies still remain somewhat biased and, thus, aimed at previously known negative results. At the same time, those are achievements in general Altaic reconstructions that yield a most reliable apparatus to separate general Altaic lexemes and original protoforms — from multidirectional borrowings, the presence of which was never denied by Altaists. So, the study theoretically analyzes ideas about the nature of relations between Altaiс languages through the lens of experience accumulated by Indo-European linguistics focusing on a group of languages with undeniable genetic ties. Materials and Methods. The work newly compares some Mongolic, Tungus-Manchu, and Turkic words, which reveals new phonetic correspondences hidden by historical changes in phonetic word structures of Turkic and partly Tungus-Manchu languages. Results. The paper substantiates a genetic kinship of Altaiс languages, and eliminates the reconstruction drawbacks identified by Acad. B. A. Serebrennikov. Conclusions. When it comes to etymological research of Altaic vocabularies, experience of Indo-European linguistics represented in textbooks and etymological dictionaries may prove instrumental enough.https://kigiran.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/2276comparative-historical linguisticsaltaicmongolicturkictungus-manchu languagesphonetic correspondencesreconstructionsborrowingsetymological dictionaries |
| spellingShingle | Alexey A. Burykin Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungus-Manchu Vocabularies: Etymological Research Methods and Objectives in the General Context of Contemporary Comparative-Historical Linguistics Oriental Studies comparative-historical linguistics altaic mongolic turkic tungus-manchu languages phonetic correspondences reconstructions borrowings etymological dictionaries |
| title | Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungus-Manchu Vocabularies: Etymological Research Methods and Objectives in the General Context of Contemporary Comparative-Historical Linguistics |
| title_full | Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungus-Manchu Vocabularies: Etymological Research Methods and Objectives in the General Context of Contemporary Comparative-Historical Linguistics |
| title_fullStr | Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungus-Manchu Vocabularies: Etymological Research Methods and Objectives in the General Context of Contemporary Comparative-Historical Linguistics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungus-Manchu Vocabularies: Etymological Research Methods and Objectives in the General Context of Contemporary Comparative-Historical Linguistics |
| title_short | Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungus-Manchu Vocabularies: Etymological Research Methods and Objectives in the General Context of Contemporary Comparative-Historical Linguistics |
| title_sort | turkic mongolic and tungus manchu vocabularies etymological research methods and objectives in the general context of contemporary comparative historical linguistics |
| topic | comparative-historical linguistics altaic mongolic turkic tungus-manchu languages phonetic correspondences reconstructions borrowings etymological dictionaries |
| url | https://kigiran.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/2276 |
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