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A Study on the Verb ‘to marry’ in Khitan Scripts
A Study on the Verb ‘to marry’ in Khitan Scripts

Author(s): Yuanming Bai
Subject(s): Semantics
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Khitan Small Script; Khitan Large Script; verb; marry; suffix; interpretation

Summary/Abstract: By sorting and comparing 18 verb forms in Khitan Small Script and 7 verb forms in Khitan Large Script that denote ‘to marry, to be given as wife’, the current study deals with the relation between the Khitan Large Script and Khitan Small Script forms. Further, it analyzes problems connected with their orthography, morphological and grammatical structure, with the grammatical cases governed by the verb and considers possible etymologies of the verbal stem.

  • Issue Year: 75/2022
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 639-654
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English