Asian Mythologies

Asian Mythologies
Author: Yves Bonnefoy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1993-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226064567

These 130 articles Aisan mythologies and cover such topics as Buddhist and Hindu symbolic systems, myth in pre-Islamic Iran, Chinese cosmology and demons, and the Japanese conceptions of the afterlife and the "vital spirit". Also includes myths from Turkey, Korea, Tibet, and Mongolia. Illustrations.

Studies in Turkish Linguistics

Studies in Turkish Linguistics
Author: Dan I. Slobin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027279160

Turkish is a member of the Turkic family of languages, which extends over a vast area in southern and eastern Siberia and adjacent portions of Iran, Afganistan, and China. Turkic, in turn, belongs to the Altaic family of languages. This book deals with the morphological and syntactic, semantic and discourse-based, synchronic and diachronic aspects of the Turkish language. Although an interest in morphosyntactic issues pervades the entire collection, the contributions can be grouped in terms of relative attention to syntax, semantics and discourse, and acquisition.

Turkish

Turkish
Author: Jaklin Kornfilt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2013-11-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317832515

Turkish is spoken by about fifty million people in Turkey and is the co-official language of Cyprus. Whilst Turkish has a number of properties that are similar to those of other Turkic languages, it has distinct and interesting characteristics which are given full coverage in this book. Jaklin Kornfilt provides a wealth of examples drawn from different levels of vocabulary: contemporary and old, official and colloquial. They are accompanied by a detailed grammatical analysis and English translation.