Philological Study of the Mongolian Version of the "Geser-Khan Epic"

Research Project

Project/Area Number	04610303
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	言語学・音声学
Research Institution	Nihon University
Principal Investigator	KURIBAYASHI Hitoshi Nihon University, College of Humanities and Sciences, Assistant Professor, 文理学部, 助教授 (30153381)
Project Period (FY)	1992 – 1993
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1993)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000) Fiscal Year 1993: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000) Fiscal Year 1992: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Keywords	Geser-Khan Epic / Mongolian / Written Mongolian / MS-DOS Textfile / Word index / コンピュータ処理 / 「ゲセル物語」 / 英雄叙事詩 / 蒙古文語
Research Abstract	The investigator has completed romanized transcription of the whole Mongolian text of the "Geser-Khan Epic", which was printed from blocks in Peking in 1716. The transcription has been recorded on a magnetic disk in the form of MS-DOS text file so that it can be utilized for linguistic analysis and research by means of a computer. Some results are as follows. 1.As for the romanized transcription of the Mongolian text, each line contains the reference which indicates the number of chapter, page, and line. Every noun and verb has been given a mark of the boundary between its stem and ending. 2.The concordance of all the stems(words)and endings of the text has been made. One can see, in the index, all the words(stems)and endings followed by its frequency and index with context and references. 3.One of the orthographic characteristics of this text is that not a few words are spelled separately in two parts, while a series of endings which should be written apart from the stem in classical Mongolian are spelled together as one word. 4.One can see some peculiar forms of word-endings, which reflects the reduction of sounds in word-final position occurred in the colloquial pronunciation.