Mongolic elements in Turkic. Survey on borrowings with respect to age, distribution and phonetical and semantic changes to derive more detailed knowledge of the development of the Mongolic-Turkic relations in connection with historical ongoings (if possible).

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Claus Schönig (†)
• Subject Area: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics ; Asian Studies
• Term: from 2013 to 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 246205994

The aim of the project is to collect (as much as possible) Mongolic loan elements in historical and modern Turkic languages (lexemes and morphemes). The collected data will be investigated with respect to the age of the borrowing into Turkic and to phonetic and semantic changes durind the process of borrowing. Furthermore, it is of interest to map the distribution of the Mongolic borrowings in the historical and modern Turkic languages. By an careful analysis of the distribution of the Mongolic borrowings and their treatment in Turkic one can gain new informations about the nature of the Turkic-Mongolic relations. Furthermore, this work promises to produce new data to the internal development of Turkic and its different subgroups. If possible, the linguistic changes and developments shall be connected with historical ongoings.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants