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Title: Middle Mongolian Past-Tense-Ba in the Secret History.
Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
Release Date : January 01, 2008
Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
Pages : * pages
Size : 269 KB

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1. INTRODUCTION Middle Mongolian has seven indicative endings: suffixal elements that close a predicate and can be used freely with subjects of all three persons. Like other suffixes, these participate in vowel harmony, having in each syllable--except those containing the non-harmonic i--an alternation between either a high vowel (u~u; symbolized by U) or a low one (a~e; symbolized by A). (1) Unlike other endings, however, these seven also have alternative shapes whose usage seem to correlate with the sex or number of the individual(s) referred to by the subject of the clause. But this correlation is far from perfect, and since sex-and number-marking of the sort proposed for these indicative endings is unknown in later stages of Mongolian, the whole matter remains something of a puzzle--despite discussion by scholars such as Doerfer, Ozawa, and Weiers. (2)