A Sketch of the Turki Language as Spoken in Eastern Turkistan (Kashgar and Yarkand): Grammar [including 21 p. of Extracts in TurkishBaptist Mission Press, 1878 |
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Page 22 - Nor does the genitive express the relation of son to father. For though we may say, ' The son of the father,' we may likewise say,
Page 3 - ... primitive Ouigour we are able to recognize as distinct significant words many terminations which in Ottoman Turkish have sunk down into mere inflections. I think I cannot here do better than quote some of the remarks made by Mr. Shaw in his ' Grammar of Eastern Turki ' on this subject. " He says : ' At the early period above referred to, the verb was perhaps a mere noun of action, destitute of any conjugation, although afterwards labelled by means of certain syllables (originally independent...
Page 64 - ... to suffer by its contact with derivative elements. There is one language, the Chinese, in which no analysis of any kind is required for the discovery of its component parts. It is a language in which no * Each verb in Greek, if conjugated through all its voices, tenses, moods and persons, yields, together with it participles, about 1300 forms. coalescence of roots has taken place : every word is a root, and every root is a word. It is, in fact, the most primitive stage in which we can imagine...
Page 4 - ... any conjugation, although afterwards labelled by means of certain syllables (originally independent words) to indicate the several times and modes of the action. Such compound words, which could hardly be considered verbs, would apply equally to the agent, the action, and the object acted upon. ... A further development of the language would consist in also labelling these verbal nouns with the several pronouns or the corresponding possessive affixes (according as the desired sense might require),...
Page 6 - I gave to you,' or even superfluously prefixed to the verb, as, siz dursiz ' ye are ; ' and so also at-ingiz
Page 4 - If one asks a man whether he has seen so-and-so, he replies : Korgan. This word may apply equally to ' the person who sees,' ' the thing seen/ and ' the action of seeing.' But in a case of ambiguity, or for greater emphasis, he might also answer : Korgan-im bar, lit. ' my seeing exists,' or Korganman, lit. '/ the seer.
Page 6 - ... each occasion from the elements at his disposal (as a compositor sets up type), rather than to employ ready-made or stereotyped forms. He accumulates affix upon affix until he has completed his meaning, instead of looking about him for a single word to which that meaning is already assigned. Hence his belief that his language is arbitrary and dependent only on his own will (notwithstanding the fact that he really, though unconsciously, works on distinct and simple principles), and hence also...
Page 1 - It may seem strange that a language developed by the rude and nomad tribes of Central Asia, who in their own home have never known how to reduce it to rule (or rather to distinguish the laws through which they themselves had unconsciously formed it), should present in fact an example of symmetry in complexity such as few of the more cultivated forms of speech exhibit.