Su-ying Hsiao

On ‘ba’, ‘be’, ‘ber’, and ‘basa’ in Middle Mongolian: a corpus-based study

(62nd Meeting Friedensau, 2019)

This paper reports some preliminary results of corpus-based syntactic studies on conjunctions and particles in Middle Mongolian (13th to 16th centuries). Data are drawn from corpora compiled by the author, including Monggol-un niuča tobča’an ‘the Secret History of the Mongols’ (hereafter SHM), Mongolian Monuments in Uighur-Mongolian Script from 13th to 16th centuries (Tumurtogoo 2006) and Mongolian Monuments in ’Phags-pa Script (Junast 1991; Tumurtogoo 2002, 2010; Hugejiletu & Sarula eds. 2004; Cai 2011).
In this talk, we’ll focus on the meanings, distributions and grammatical functions of ‘ba’ (and, also), ‘be’ (also), ‘ber’ (also), and ‘basa’ (also).

Selected References:

Cai, Mei-biao (蔡美彪). 2011. Basiba Zi Beike Wenwu Jishi, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press.
Hugejiletu & Sarula eds. (呼格吉勒圖、薩如拉編). 2004. Basiba Zi Mengguyu Wenxian Huibian, Hohhot: Inner Mongolia Education Press.
Junast (照那斯圖). 1991. hP’hangs-pa Script and Mongolian Materials II: Source Materials, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo Universtiy of Foreign Studies.
Tumurtogoo, D. 2002. Монгол Дөрвөлжин Үсэгийн Дурасхалын Судалгаа: удирдхал, эх бичиг, үгсийн хэлхээ, ном зүй. Ulaanbaatar: The International Association for Mongol Studies.
Tumurtogoo, D. 2006. Mongolian Monuments in Uighuric-Mongolian Script (XIII-XVI Centuries): Introduction, Transcription and Bibliography. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica.
Tumurtogoo, D. 2010. Mongolian Monuments in ’Phags-pa Script: Introduction, Transcription and Bibliography. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica.