The fascinating story of the visualized languages, alphabets, and other wriitjng systems, hand-written and block-printed books of the Mongols, Kalmyks, Buryats, and other Mongolian nations is outlined in this study by one of the world's preeminent scholars of the region. The mostly nomadic peoples of the Mongolian language family have a long history of letters. The Khitans had ...(展开全部)

Grammar of Spoken and Written English The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of grammatical constructions in English, as do other reference grammars. But GSWE is unique in that it gives equal attention to describing the patterns of language use for each gram...(展开全部)

* Over 350 tables and graphs show the frequency of constructions in different contexts, from conversation to fiction to academic prose * Entirely corpus-based with 6000 authentic examples from the 40 million-word Longman Spoken and Written English Corpus * Suggests the reasons why we choose a particular structure in a particular context * Compares British and American spoken an...(展开全部)

The Mongolian Yuan dynasty, 1272-1368, is a short but interesting chapter in the long history of Sino-Mongolian relations. Faced with the challenge of governing a huge sedentary empire, the traditionally nomadic Mongols acceded to some Chinese institutional precedents, but, in large part, adhered to their own Inner Asian practices of staffing and administering the government ap...(展开全部)

Since the Chinese Communists took control of Inner Mongolia, very little has been written about that region, the vast steppeland of northern China. This book charts the recent history of the pastoral Mongolian minority there. It examines the effects of five decades of social engineering by the Chinese state, and explores the role of economic forms, ritual, symbolism, and ideolo...(展开全部)

芮跋辭（Volker Rybatzki），著名阿爾泰學家，尤長於古突厥語文學和中古蒙古語文學研究，從芬蘭赫爾辛基大學獲得阿爾泰學博士學位。曾在赫爾辛基大學開設阿爾泰學課程，出有多種影響廣泛的阿爾泰學論著，包括在學界極受好評的《吐欲谷碑銘》（Die Toñuquq-Inschrift, 2004），《中古蒙古語文獻中的人名與稱號》（Die Personennamen und Titel der mittelmongolischen Dokumente -- eine lexikalische Untersuchung, 2006），以及與羅依果（Igor De Rachewiltz）合著的《阿爾泰語文學導論——突厥語、蒙古語和滿語》（Introduction to Altaic Philology：Turkic, Mongolian, Manchu, ...(展开全部)

What happens when language wars are not about hurling insults or quibbling over meanings, but are waged in the physical sounds and shapes of language itself? Native and foreign speakers, mother tongues and national languages, have jostled for distinction throughout the modern period. The fight for global dominance between the English and Chinese languages opens into historical ...(展开全部)