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Issues of comparative Uralic and Altaic Studies (3) : The Turkic plural in *-s
Apart from the Common Turkic plural marker *-lAr, the Turkic languages, including Chuvash, show traces of an older plural marker that may be reconstructed as *-s, represented as (*)-z in Common Turkic and as (*)-r in Bulghar Turkic. This marker has been controversial, postulated by some and rejected by other Turkologists. Applying the method of internal reconstruction, the present paper shows that there is no reason to deny its existence in Pre-Proto-Turkic. In the modern Turkic languages it is preserved in several types of nominal lexemes, including pronouns, numerals, names of body parts, and occasional other nouns.Peer reviewe
Preface: The Tu people and challenges of the modern world
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Leif Rantala 1947–2015
Nekrolog Leif Rantala 1947–201
Altaica from Harrassowitz
Michael Knüppel & Aloïs van Tongerloo (eds.): Life and Afterlife & Apocalyptic Concepts in the Altaic World. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Château Pietersheim, Belgium, September, 3-8, 2000. Tunguso-Sibirica, Band 31. Wiesbaden: Harras- sowitz Verlag, 2011. 163 pp. ISBN 978-3-447-06591-7
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