2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A Corpus-based Study of the Transcription Rules of Chinese charactersfor Mongolian in the Secret History of the Mongols

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23820042
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Linguistics
Research Institution	The University of Shimane
Principal Investigator	MONGKEDALAI 島根県立大学, 総合政策学部, 助手 (40609913)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2012
Keywords	元朝秘史 / コーパス / モンゴル語 / 漢字音訳
Research Abstract	Based on the Parallel Corpus for the correspondence relations between the Mongolian language and the Chinese characters appeared in the transcribed version of the Secret History of the Mongols, this study has comprehensively researched the correspondence between Mongolian sound and Chinese character in the transcription, and derived the transcription rules which include the regulations of the ‘Correspondence of Sound’, the ‘Special Transcription’, and the ‘Involvement of the Features other than the Sound’. On the other hand, this study has examined 807-kinds of corresponding relations between Mongolian sound and Chinese character formed in the transcription. Meanwhile, it confirmed each function of Chinese character transcription and tried to grasp a n overall perspective of formulas of Chinese character transcription in the Secret History of the Mongols