A Morphological Study in the Language of "The Secret History of Mongols"

本研究的主要目的是利用计算机研究《蒙古秘史》中蒙古语的语法语素(词尾)的意义和功能。研究人员将《蒙古秘史》的整个蒙古语文本输入到计算机中，该文本是根据路易·利盖蒂的《蒙古秘史》(布达佩斯，1971)的转录而成的罗马化形式。1)每行与《蒙古秘史》原文相对应，其中蒙古文用汉字抄写。2)每行开头加6个数字，表示音量，3)所有动词都被分析成它们的词干和词尾，并在它们之间增加了边界标记。4)在名词词干和一些语法词尾之间增加了一个边界标记，这在利盖蒂的S抄本中是没有标记的。在输入的“电子文本”的基础上，编制了所有单词和语法词尾的索引和与上下文的对应(KWIC)，其中所有的条目都有它们的使用频率和出现的位置(卷、页、行)。

The main purpose of this research is to investigate, making use of computers, the meanings and functions of grammatical morphemes (endings) of the Mongolian language in "the Secret History of Mongols".The researcher has inputted into a computer the whole Mongolian text of "the Secret History of Mongols" in the shape of a romanization based on the transcription of Louis Ligeti's" Histoire secrete de Mongols" (Budapest, 1971). The so-called "electronized text has been added some signs and arranged in the following way so that the computer can easily analyze and compile statistics.1) Every line corresponds with that of the original text of "Yuan-ch'ao pishih" (the Secret History of Mongols), in which the Mongolian language is transcribed in chinese characters.2) At the beginning of every line, six numerals have been added which indicate the volume, page and line of the original text.3) All the verbs have been analised into their stem and ending and the boundary mark has been added between them.4) A boundary mark has been added between a noun-stem and some grammatical endings, which is not marked in Ligeti' s transcription.On the basis of the inputted "electronized text", indices of all the words and grammatical endings and a concordance with contexts (KWIC) have been compiled, in which all the entries have their frequency of use and the place of occurence (volume, page and line).