Cемантический анализ терминов родства и свойства в среднемонгольском языке
Structural analysis of the system of kinship terms in Middle Mongolian

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents structural analysis of the system of kinship terms in Middle Mongolian. The analysis is based on all known lexicographic and narrative sources from XIII to beginning of XVII century. The meaning of each term is defined in the meta-language of componential analysis; main structural features of the system are discovered and defined, the results are compared with historical and ethnographical data on the Mongolian social structure of the imperial period (in particular kinship system and marriage rules).

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