Journal of Old Turkic Studies

Yazarlar: Peter PİİSPAANEN

Konular:Dil ve Dil Bilim

DOI:10.35236/jots.672875

Anahtar Kelimeler:Altaic Languages – History of research,Survey,Classification,And a sketch of comparative grammar

Özet: This book review is about V. BLAŽEK’s book (in collaboration with M. SCHWARZ and O. SRBA) “Altaic Languages”, subtitled “History of research, survey, classification, and a sketch of comparative grammar”, printed at the Masaryk University Press, in Brno of the Czech Republic in 2019. The review handles both the digital and printed versions of this book. “Altaic Languages” is a timely publication about an old research field where old ideas are being evaluated and new ideas are being created. As stated in the Preface(pages 9-14), this monograph is also called a Manual, which seems like a suitable descriptive term for it, as would be (Bibliographic) Encyclopaedia. The materials are based on no less than five different series of papers, some of which are printed here for the first time in English. These series are: review articles of Altaic etymologies, articles on distribution and classification of the Macro-Altaic languages and their phonology, articles on the pronominal systems of the Altaic languages, articles on Macro-Altaic numerals, and articles on the history of research and development of Altaic linguistics. While the volume is thus anthological in nature is encompasses an unusually broad concept, namely all of the Macro-Altaic languages of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean and Japanese. 

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