Santiago de Chile: Imprenza Cervantes, 1895-1897. — 532 p. — Bandera 73 — Anales de la Universidad de Chile, Tomo XCVII. — ISBN: 3-447-02502-6. En este libro: Diálogos en cuatro dialectos. Cuentos populares, narraciones históricas i descriptivas i cantos de los indios de Chile en lengua Mapuche, con traduccion literal Castellana, por el Dr. Rodolfo Lenz, professor del Instituto...
Article. — Journal of Old Turkic Studies. — Vol. 4/1. — 2020. — P. 152-187. Continuing on previous research, in this fourth part of a paper series, a total of sixteen newly found suggested borrowings from the Turkic, Tungusic and Mongolic languages into the Yukaghir languages and dialects of far northeastern Siberia are presented as loanword etymologies, as well as ten most...
Article. — Homo — 2014. — Vol. 43. — No. 3. — S. 213-244. Six independent traits, some old, some new, were examined, occipital index (Fig.2), sphenomaxillary suture (Fig.3), transverse zygomatic suture trace (Fig.4), infraorbital pattern type II (Fig.5), transverse palatine suture index (Fig.6), and supraorbital foramen (Fig.7). These characteristics may presently be regarded...
Article. — Journal of Latin American Geography — 2014. — Vol. 12. — No. 2. — S. 181-206. Abstract follows: The Critical review of a fundamental historical source of indigenous languages spoken around 1600 in the ancient bishopric of Charcas, called Copia de los Curatos, combined with a cartographic interpretation of key information contained in its text, allows a more accurate...
Touchstone, 2008. — 324 p. — ISBN: 1416552251 (ISBN13: 9781416552253). Mortimer Tate was a recently divorced insurance salesman when he holed up in a cave on top of a mountain in Tennessee and rode out the end of the world. Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse begins nine years later, when he emerges into a bizarre landscape filled with hollow reminders of an America that no longer...
Leisure Books, 1989. — ISBN10: 0843928816 ISBN13: 978-0843928815. Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This fifth book in the Blade series was published in 1989. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the Endworld series, and David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years...
Leisure Books, 1989. — ISBN: 0843927496 (ISBN13: 9780843927498). Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This fifteenth book was published in 1989. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the series. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years after World War III, a nuclear...
Leisure Books, 1989. — 184 p. — ISBN: 0843927259 (ISBN13: 9780843927252). Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This fourteenth book was published in 1989. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the series. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years after World War III, a...
Leisure Books., 1988. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0843926988 (ISBN13: 9780843926989). Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This thirteenth book was published in 1988. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the series. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years after World War III,...
Leisure Books., 1988. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0843926724 (ISBN13: 9780843926729). Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This twelfth book was published in 1988. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the series. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years after World War III, a...
Dorchester Publishing Company, Inc., 1988. — 192 p. — ISBN0843926449 (ISBN13: 9780843926446). Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This eleventh book was published in 1988. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the series. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years...
Leisure Books, 1988. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0843926066 (ISBN13: 9780843926064). Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This tenth book was published in 1988. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the series. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years after World War III, a...
Leisure Books, 1988. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0843925841 (ISBN13: 9780843925845). Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This ninth book was published in 1988. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the series. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years after World War III, a...
Leisure Books, 1987. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0843925485 (ISBN13: 9780843925487). Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This eight book was published in 1987. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the series. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years after World War III, a...
Leisure Books, 1987. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0843925272 (ISBN13: 9780843925272). Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This seventh book was published in 1987. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the series. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years after World War III, a...
Leisure Books, 1991. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0843925078 (ISBN13: 9780843925074). Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This sixth book was published in 1991. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the series. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years after World War III, a...
Leisure Books, 1991. — 256 p. — ISBN: 084392473X (ISBN13: 9780843924732). Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This fifth book was published in 1991. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the series. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years after World War III, a...
Leisure Books, 1987. — ISBN: 0843924497 (ISBN13: 9780843924497). Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This fourth book was published in 1987. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the series. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years after World War III, a nuclear war...
Leisure Books, 1986. — ISBN: 0843924187 (ISBN13: 9780843924183). Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This third book was published in 1986. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the series. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years after World War III, a nuclear war...
Leisure Books, 1986. — 256 p. — ISBN: 084393106X (ISBN13: 9780843931068). Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This second book was published in 1986. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the series. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years after World War III, a...
Leisure Books, 1986. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0843931051 (ISBN13: 9780843931051). Endworld is a series of post-apocalyptic novels written by David L. Robbins. This first book was published in 1986. As of 2014, there have been 29 novels written in the series. David Robbins also wrote a 13 novel spin-off to this series called Blade. The series begins 100 years after World War III, a...
Monograph. — Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information. — CSLI Publications, 2013. — (CLSI Lecture Notes 212). This thick work focuses on the description of encoding strategies for relative clauses using Tundra Nenets an an example language, with typological comparisons to Mongolic, Turkic, Tungusic, Uralic, Armenian and Yukaghir languages.
Article. — Journal of Indo-European Studies — 2019. — Vol. 47(1&2). — S. 213-222. In this paper, Czech linguist Václav Blažek proposes a new likely etymology for Tocharian B lasto. He states that: In agreement with Melanie Malzahn Tocharian B lasto should be translated as “belonging to branches of a shrub”. Here two new alternative etymologies are offered: on the basis of...
Article. — Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hung. — 2013. — Vol. 66(4). — S. 411-416. In this paper, Witczak details two fauna borrowings into Tocharian: one from a Turkic source and another from an East Iranian source. The etymological state of the art of the Tocharian words are presented, and the new etymological suggestions are convincingly outlined in phonological and...
The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia. — Mair Victor H. (ed.) — Washington D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, 1998. — S. 379–390. In this book chapter, Lubotsky gives a comprehensive overview of Tocharian loanwords in Old Chinese.
M.A. Thesis work. — Vergleichende Indoeuropäische Sprachwissenschaft. — München: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2016. This thesis work focuses on migrations of the proto-Tocharians based on linguistic and archaeological evidence. Tocharian in relation to other Indo-European languages, information on attested Tocharian texts, Turkic and Chinese contacts with Tocharians,...
(Tocharské výpůjčky v čínštině). — Thesis work (Ústav obecné lingvistiky Diplomová práce). — Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 2017. This work was created to review the evidence for lexical borrowing from the Tocharian languages to the Chinese languages. The used methodology relies on lexical lists, previous etymological findings, linguistic typology and anthropological input. For...
Article. — MSFOu — 1977. — Vol. CLVIII — S. 67-73. In this short paper written in German, the Swedish linguist Björn Collinder argues for a genetic language relationship between the Uralic and Yukaghir languages and the Altaic ones (Turkic, Tungusic and Mongolic, as well as Koreanic) using several illuminating grammatical and lexical examples and comparisons.
Language Dispersal Beyond Farming. — Robbeets Martine & Savelyev Alexander (eds.) — John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017. — V. 215 — S. 93–121. In this ambitious fifth chapter of the book, Martine Robbeets investigates to what extent agriculture impacted on the dispersal of Transeurasian languages (the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic and Japonic languages).
Article. — Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes — 1997. — Vol. 87. — S. 153-175. In this article, Alexis Manaster-Ramer and Paul Sidwell argue that the finding (and lack of) cognate numerals between the Altaic languages have played an unjustifiable large role in the debate of the possible interrelatedness of said languages (Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic). In this...
Article. — Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes. — 1995. — Vol. 85. — S. 187-197. In this article, Alexis Manaster-Ramer argues against the three-way phonemic constrast in Khalaj vowel lengths as argued by Doerfer, and instead suggests a mere two-way phonemic contrast between monophthongs and diphthongs.
Article. — Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları — 1993. — Vol. 3. — S. 79-86. In this paper, the prominent German Turcologist and Anti-Altaicist Gerhard Doerfer argues in detail for the existence of an older Mongolic lexical borrowing layer in ancient Turkic using lexical examples with phonological considerations and morphological markers.
Article. — Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia — 2014. — Vol. 19. — S. 95-115. In this German article, Corinna Lebscher of Berlin presents the semantic development of some Turkic lexical borrowings into Bulgarian, and some neighbouring languages (Rumanian, Greek, Albanian and Serbian). In the study, lexicographic data is used combined with sociolinguistic interviews, which shows that...
Article. — The bulletin of the international institute for linguistic sciences. — 1981. — Vol. 2. — No. 4. — S. 39-58. In this article, Doerfer presents his view of what is required to prove that a genetic language relationship exists between two languages. Gerhard Doerfer was a German Turkologist, Anti-Altaist, and philologist best known for his studies of the Turkic languages...
Article. — Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hung. — 1992-1993. — Vol. 46. — No. 2-3. — S. 323-326. In this French article, Russian linguist Scerbak of the St. Petersburg University, deals in the phonological phenomenon in the Mongolic languages called rhotacism.
Article. — Central Asiatic Journal. — 1956. — Vol. 2. — No. 3. — p. 181-187. In this early article, sir Gerard Clauson argues against the so-called Altaic theory, that is to say that the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic languages do not have a common ancestor. It is claimed that the shared features are for the most part borrowings, or chance resemblances. Clauson is famous for being...
EReads.com, 2000. — 123 p. — ISBN: 1585861065. First published in 1943, it tells the story of Armon Jarles, a man on the edge, living amidst the disputes of two rival powers at large in the world. 360 years after a nuclear holocaust ravaged mankind, throwing society back into the dark ages, the world is fraught with chaos and superstition. Leiber is generally considered one of...
Ace Books, 1999. — 230 p. The third volume of Haldeman's (three) Forever War books. The story is a direct sequal to the first volume, Forever War, and follows the lives of William Mandella and wife, and other war veterans, deciding to leave their dissatisfied lives on the planet Middle Finger, for the far future in the search of a better life.
Ace Books, 1974. — 290 p. The second volume of Haldeman's (three) Forever War books. The story is not a direct sequel to the first volume but takes place on a different future of Earth much closer to our own time. The main protagonist, Julian Class, is a physicist and a mechanic who operates a soldierboy, nearly invincible remote-controlled robots. An Alliance military fights...
St. Martin's Press, 1974. — 147 p. The first volume of Haldeman's (three) Forever War books. Briefly, reading as a commentary on the Vietnam War, William Mandella is a physics student conscripted for an elite task force in the United Nations Exploratory Force being assembled for a war against the Taurans, an alien species discovered when they apparently attacked human colonists'...
Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1982. — 79 p. — (Materials for Central Asiatic and Altaic Studies 2). — ISBN: 963-05-3362-X. This reprint of the original Russian edition from 1894 was compiled by the Research Group for Altaic Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It presents the lexical field notes of Aleksey Osipovich Ivanovskiy, a Russian orientalist, well-versed in...
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1985. — 307 p. — (Tungusica Band 3). — ISBN: 3-447-02502-6. This German-edition publication is a comparative linguistics work dealing with the Tungusic and Mongolic languages. Using extensive lexical comparisons, and statistical methods, Doerfer attempts to disprove the Altaic genetic language theory in this milestone work.
Article. — Uralic and Siberian Lexicology and Lexicography. Studia uralo-altaica. Vol. 51. Proceedings of the 4th Mikola Conference 14-15, November 2014. — Szegeb: University of Szegeb, 2017. — S. 75-88. The topic of my current research is the exploration of Altaic elements in the Yeniseian languages. Previous studies only focused on the Turkic elements, whereas the Mongolic and...
Article. — Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları. — 2015. — No. 25.1. — p. 91-107. The metathesis is the typical phonetic feature in Yeniseian. Usually it happened with labial and velar consonants. The paper presents some Altaic loanwords, where the different types of metathesis occurred and tries to find out the phonetic rules.
Article. — Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia. — 2015. — No. 20. — P. 111-126. The paper presents some phonetic, morphological and semantic considerations, which characterize the Turkic elements of Mongolic origin in the Yeniseian languages. There are some criteria, which help to distinguish direct and indirect Mongolic loanwords.
Article. — Journal of Old Turkic Studies. Vol. 3/1. — 2019. — P. 54-82. In this second part of a paper series, ten newly found suggested borrowings from the Turkic, Tungusic and Mongolic languages into the Yukaghir languages and dialects of far north eastern Siberia are presented as loanword etymologies. The chronology of the borrowings is considered, and solid phonological and...
Article. — Turkic Languages. — Vol. 22. — 2018. — P. 107-137. This paper presents twenty-five newly found suggested borrowings from the Turkic, Tungusic and Mongolic languages into the Yukaghiric languages of far northeastern Siberia. The chronology of the borrowings is considered, and solid phonological and semantic considerations are given for each suggestion. Several of the new...
Article. — Journal of Old Turkic Studies. — Vol. 3/2. — 2019. — P. 321-371. In this third part of a paper series, a total of thirty-nine newly found suggested borrowings from the Turkic, Tungusic and Mongolic (and Russian) languages into the Yukaghir languages and dialects of far northeastern Siberia are presented as loanword etymologies, which is followed by the discussion of a...
Leiden; London: Brill, 2016. — 266 p. — ( The Languages of Asia Series 14). Bilingual Sections of a Chinese Military Collection. In this book, Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky offers a complete reconstruction of the Chinese-Mongol vocabulary of the 17th century comprehensive Chinese military work called Lulongsai lüe (盧龍塞略, LLSL), a document of key importance containing one of the last...
University of Copenhagen, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Copenhagen/Denmark, 2017. — 202 p. Master's thesis. A comparative loanword study in Proto-Indo-European vocabulary. Prize paper in Indo-European Linguistics.