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By Keith W. Slater

This booklet is a grammar of Mangghuer, a Mongolic language spoken via nearly 25,000 humans in China's northwestern Qinghai Province. Mangghuer is almost unknown outdoor China, and no grammar of Mangghuer has ever been released in any language. The book's basic significance is hence as a scientific grammatical description of a little-known language. The publication additionally makes an important contribution to comparative Mongolic reviews. as well as the synchronic description of Mangghuer, broad comparability with different Mongolic languages is incorporated, demonstrating the genetic dating of Mangghuer inside that kin. during describing Mangghuer linguistic constructions, the publication additionally examines problems with curiosity to linguistic typologists.

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