Descriptive Study on Shinekhen Buryat, one of the endangered Mongoliclanguages.

本研究项目旨在描述ShinekhenBuryat的语音和语法（中国北方俄罗斯布里亚特移民使用的蒙古语），并将其整理成语言文献。通过这三年的项目，出版了Shinekhen Buryat的语言材料和语法草图，并澄清了以下三点：（1）ShinekhenBuryat中的人称所有格助词主要起着所有格标记的作用（另一方面，现代蒙古语中的人称所有格助词失去了所有格标记的功能），这些助词可能具有不服从标记的功能。(2)前面提到的一些分词应该被归类为名词性（动词性名词性），因为它们比其他“典型”分词具有更多的名词性特征和更少的动词性特征。(3)从跨语言的角度来看，分词被定义为从动词到形容词的屈折变换。这一定义似乎适用于ShinekhenBuryat分词;然而，分词的句法特征不同于形容词。分词作状语从句的谓语时，常与附加助词一起出现，而附加助词不与修饰动词的形容词一起出现。

This research project aims to describe the phonology and grammar of Shinekhen Buryat (a Mongolic languages spoken by Buryat immigrants from Russia in northern China), as well as to make a language documentation of it. Through this three-year project, language materials and a grammatical sketch of Shinekhen Buryat were published and three points were clarified as follows:(1) Personal possessive particles function mainly as possessive markers in Shinekhen Buryat (on the other hand, personal possessive particles in Modern Mongolian lose theirfunction as possessive markers), and these particles may function as the markers of insubordination.(2) Some of the aforementioned participles should be classified as nominals (deverbal nominals), since they have more noun-like and less verb-like features than other “typical” participles.(3) Cross-linguistically, participles are defined as the inflectional transposition from verb sto adjectives. This definition seems applicable to Shinekhen Buryat participles ; however, the syntactic features of participles are different from those of adjectives. When a participle is used as the predicate of an adverbial clause, it always appears with some enclitical particles, which do not appear with adjectives that modify verbs.