Kempf Béla. Verb formation in the Secret History of the Mongols

A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Altaic Studies — Szeged: University of Szeged, 2009. — 183 p.The first aim of this work was to examine the verbalization processes of Middle Mongol as it appears in the Mongqol-un niuča tobča’an. After finding the derivational elements traceable from this stage of the language I set the target to characterize them. This is important to emphasize, since I tried to carry out the examination in an empiric way, thus the starting point for characterization was the text itself, and not the secondary literature. Indeed where sharp contrast was observable, I used comparative data to picture the differences between this and later stages of the language. However, in the present stage of work in this respect I do not aim at completeness.