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HdO.Gorelova.7.vw.L 25-04-2002 15:50 Pagina 1 MANCHU GRAMMAR HdO.Gorelova.7.vw.L 25-04-2002 15:50 Pagina 2 HANDBOOK OF ORIENTAL STUDIES HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK SECTION EIGHT CENTRAL ASIA edited by LILIYA M. GORELOVA VOLUME SEVEN MANCHU GRAMMAR HdO.Gorelova.7.vw.L 25-04-2002 15:50 Pagina 3 MANCHU GRAMMAR EDITED BY LILIYA M. GORELOVA BRILL LEIDEN • BOSTON • KÖLN 2002 HdO.Gorelova.7.vw.L 25-04-2002 15:50 Pagina 4 This book is printed on acid-free paper Die Deutsche Bibliothek – CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Gorelova, Liliya M.: Manchu Grammar / ed. by Liliya M. Gorelova. – Leiden ; Boston ; Köln : Brill, 2002 (Handbook of oriental studies : Sect.. 8, Central Asia ; 7) ISBN 90–04–12307–5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gorelova, Liliya M. Manchu grammar / Liliya M. Gorelova p. cm. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section eight. Central Asia ; vol.7) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9004123075 (alk. paper) 1. Manchu language—Grammar. I. Gorelova, Liliya M. II. Handbuch der Orientalis tik. Achte Abteilung, Handbook of Uralic studies ; vol.7 PL473 .M36 2002 494’.1—dc21 2001022205 ISSN 0169-8524 ISBN 90 04 12307 5 © Copyright 2002 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by E.J. Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910 Danvers MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands contents v CONTENTS Preface ............................................................................................. xi Description of Linguistic Materials ................................................ xvii Part One Prolegomena to Manchu Studies 1. The Altaic Language Family and the Manchu Language ...... 3 2. The Place of Manchu among the Languages of the Tungus- Manchu Linguistic Community (from a typological point of view) ......................................................................................... 5 3. The Manchus: a Brief Survey of their History ...................... 6 3.1. The Jurchens and their Ancient History .......................... 8 3.2. The Manchus’ Ethnicity ................................................... 18 3.3. Clans in the History of the Manchus ............................... 19 3.4. Banners and Garrisons as Major Government Institutions of the Manchus ............................................. 21 3.5. Manchu Identity ............................................................... 24 3.6. The Decline of the Manchu Language ........................... 27 3.7. Rebirth of the Manchus ................................................... 29 4. The Manchu Language and its Dialects ................................. 30 4.1. The Manchus and the Sibes ............................................. 31 4.2. Contemporary Life of the Sibes in Xinjiang, One of the Most Multinational Regions of China ............................ 38 4.3. The Sibe Dialect in Relation to Literary Manchu .......... 40 Part Two Manchu Script 1. The History of Writing the Manchu Language ..................... 49 2. Graphic Structure of the Manchu Letters .............................. 51 3. The Manchu Graphemes and the Way of their Writing ....... 54 3.1. The Manchu Graphemes Rendering Vowels (and the semivowel y) ...................................................................... 55 3.2. Manchu Graphemes Rendering Consonants .................. 59 3.3. Additional Graphemes ..................................................... 71 4. Outward Appearance of Manchu Writing ............................. 72 5. Punctuation Marks ................................................................... 73 gorel-vrw.p65 5 4/16/02, 9:34 PM vi contents Part Three Phonology 1. Vowels and Consonants ........................................................... 77 1.1. Vowels ............................................................................ 77 1.2. Consonants ....................................................................... 86 2. Vowel Harmony ....................................................................... 89 3. The Dropping of Vowels and Consonants in Manchu Words 99 4. Stress ........................................................................................ 99 5. Types of Syllables and Syllabic Structure of Manchu Words 102 6. Elements of Morphophonemics. Morphemic Structure of a Word. Stems and Suffixes ........................................................ 112 6.1. Noun Stems ...................................................................... 113 6.2. Verbal Stems ..................................................................... 115 6.3. Alternation of Vowels and Consonants in Stems ............ 116 6.4. Vowel Harmony in Suffixes .............................................. 117 Part Four Morphology 1. Polysemantics and Polyfunctionality of Language Units as Two Principal Features of Manchu Grammar ....................... 124 2. Nominal Parts of Speech. Different Functional and Semantic Groups of Nouns ..................................................................... 126 2.1. Human Nouns ................................................................. 133 2.1.1. Plurals .................................................................... 134 2.2. Nouns Denoting Inanimate Objects and Abstract Notions (Object Nouns) ................................................... 140 2.3. Sex of Living Beings ......................................................... 144 2.4. Nouns Denoting Semantics of Quality ............................ 145 2.4.1. The Substantive-Possessive Suffix -ngge .................. 153 2.5. Diminutives and Augmentatives ...................................... 155 2.6. Degrees of Comparison ................................................... 156 2.6.1. Comparative constructions .................................... 157 2.6.2. Superlative Constructions ...................................... 159 2.7. Declension as a Universal System of Syntactic Subordination. Noun Declension .................................... 162 2.8. Noun Case Forms (Nominative, Genitive, Accusative, Dative/Locative, Ablative) ............................................... 163 2.9. Word Formation of Nouns ............................................... 194 3. Numerals .................................................................................. 200 3.1. Cardinal Numerals ........................................................... 201 gorel-vrw.p65 6 4/16/02, 9:34 PM contents vii 3.2. Ordinal Numerals ............................................................ 203 3.3. Distributive Numerals ...................................................... 204 3.4. Fractional Numerals ......................................................... 204 3.5. Multiplicative Numerals .................................................. 205 3.6. Collective Numerals ......................................................... 205 3.7. Iterative Numerals ............................................................ 205 3.8. Numeratives ..................................................................... 206 3.9. Words Denoting Periods of Time. Cycles ....................... 209 3.10. Words for Periods of Time ............................................. 212 4. Pronouns .................................................................................. 214 4.1. Personal Pronouns. Irregular Pronominal Case Forms ... 214 4.2. Demonstrative Pronouns ................................................. 217 4.3. Possessive Forms of the Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns ........................................................................... 219 4.4. Interrogative Pronouns .................................................... 219 4.5. Indefinite Pronouns .......................................................... 223 4.6. The Relative Meaning of the Indefinite Pronoun “ele” 224 4.7. Pronominal Use of the Word “beye” .............................. 225 4.8. Nouns in the Pronominal Function ................................. 227 5. Verbal Morphology ................................................................. 231 5.1. Verbal Parts of Speech ..................................................... 233 5.2. The Structure of a Verbal Stem and Word-Formation of Verbs ............................................................................ 233 5.3. Verbs of Motion ............................................................... 239 5.4. Aspect .............................................................................. 240 5.5. Voice .............................................................................. 244 5.6. Participles ......................................................................... 252 5.6.1. Imperfect and Perfect Participles .......................... 254 5.6.2. Participles in the Forms of Oblique Cases ........... 257 5.6.3. Declension of Clauses with Participial Predicates 258 5.6.4. Negative Participle Forms ..................................... 260 5.6.5. Substantive Forms of Participles and the Process of Nominalization of Participles .......................... 263 5.7. Converbs ........................................................................... 267 5.7.1. Imperfect