Chapter 9 On the Verbal Suffix -maχe in Sibe: The Development of Its Morphophonology and Language Contact
Chapter 9 On the Verbal Suffix -maχe in Sibe: The Development of Its Morphophonology and Language Contact
复制标题
第九章 论《锡伯语》动词后缀-maxe:其形音学和语言联系的发展
DOI:
10.1163/9789004503502_010
复制
发表时间:
2022
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Norikazu Kogura
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
山辺 弦;Norikazu Kogura
Sibe is a Tungusic (Manchu-Tungusic) language spoken in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China where there are around 30,000 people who speak Sibe today. Among the Tungusic languages, Sibe is so close to Manchu that it has also been referred to as Spoken Manchu (Yamamoto 1969) or as a dialect of Manchu (Wang 2005) in literature. The Sibe people originally lived in the north-eastern area of China where most of the Sibe population is still located. However, in the late eighteenth century (1764), a number of people were forced to migrate to the Yili region in Xinjiang to act as soldiers guarding the border between the Russian Empire, and they subsequently settled down there. After the settlement, Sibe people living in the north-eastern region lost the Sibe language and started speaking Chinese. Therefore, nowadays, the Sibe language is mainly spoken by those who live in Xinjiang, especially in the Yili region. As many languages such as Chinese, Modern Uyghur, and Kazakh are spoken in Xinjiang, most speakers of the Sibe language are multilingual and speak these languages in their daily lives. Thus, many loanwords from these neighbouring languages can be found in Sibe.It is known that Sibe, including Manchu, is linguistically quite peculiar among Tungusic languages. In fact, the peculiarity of Sibe and Manchu has been thought to be a result of language contact with Mongolic languages (Ikegami 1979; Zikmundová 2013). For example, a topic or possessive marker⸗ ni’is found in Sibe. This marker can also be found in Mongolic languages and is thought to have been borrowed from the third-person possessive marking in Mongolic languages as a result of such contact. Historical studies based on archives have revealed that the Manchu have had close contact with the Mongolic peoples and, in particular, that the Sibe had lived under the influence of the Khorchin Mongols during the seventeenth century (Kusunoki 2009). Thus, it appears