Interpretaion Of Khitan Words In Epitaph Of YELü Zaixiang In Khitan Large Script And Grammatical Category Of Possession In Khitan

Khitan is one of the nomads in northern China.The Khitan people established the Liao Dynasty.They have been building northern China for over 200 years.In order to record the Khitan language,the Khitan people successively created two types of scripts,Khitan large script and Khitan small script.But with the downfall of the Liao Dynasty and the dispersal and integration of the Khitan people into other ethnic groups,by the end of the Yuan and early Ming dynasties,the Khitan language had become a dead language,and the Khitan scripts had also become unrecognizable dead scripts.With the discovery of the eulogies of the Khitan Emperor and Empress in Khitan small script in the 1920s as well as the excavation of the Khitan inscriptions in Khitan large script in the 1930s,the study of Khitan philology began.So far,it has gone through a hundred years and achieved remarkable success.Based on the research results of previous scholars,with the increasing number of research materials along with the increasingly diversified and scientific research methods,generations of Khitan researchers have made a great achievement in many repects of study as the reconstruction of the phonetic value of the glyphs of Khitan small script,the interpretation of vocabulary,the spelling rules of the glyphs,the exploration of phonetic and grammatical rules,and the reconstruction of the phonetic value of characters of Khitan large script,the lexical interpretation,the corresponding relations between large and small scripts,the electronic processing of Khitan scripts,the construction of a corpus of small script literature,the production of computer font for Khitan scripts,the modernization and digital research of Khitan scripts.So far,a total of 46 small script inscriptions have been discovered,with over 50000 words in total.There are about 330 glyphs and more than 3100 words in small script that have been interpreted.So far,over 30 large character script inscriptions have been discovered,with a total of approximately 50000 characters.Over 510 large script characters and over 890 large script words have been interpreted.The research object of this article is mainly the newly discovered the Epitaph of Yelü Zaixiang in Khitan large script,but it is not limited to this particular epitaph,but also includes other related Khitan large and small script inscriptions.The core task of studying the Khitan script is to interpret the Khitan scripts based on the research achievements of predecessors.This paper takes 2015 as the starting point for the literature review as it partially included in the Further Study of Khitan Small Script,and systematically organizes the research achievements of Khitan large and small characters both domestically and internationally in the past decade.On this basis,the research methods of collation,comparative philology and historical comparative linguistics are applied to distinguish large and small scripts,analyze the structure of the glyphs and characters,study and interpret large and small script words,explore the corresponding relations between large and small scripts,and explore and sort out the grammar rules of the grammatical category in Khitan language,so as to improve the interpretation of the Khitan words and the laws and regulations of Khitan language.This study consists of five chapters and they are introduction,the first chapter on the interpretation of the words in the Epitaph of Yelü Zaixiang in Khitan large script,the second chapter on the interpretation of Khitan small script words related to the Epitaph of Yelü Zaixiang,and the third chapter on the grammatical category of possession in Khitan and the conclusion respectively.After investigation and analysis,4 words were interpreted,3 words were discussed,4 phonemic values were reconstructed,3 phonemic relationships between large and small scrips,and 6 pair of variant characters were discovered.Besides,10 additional elements(suffixes)of the grammatical category of possession in Khitan were sorted out.The specific research conclusions are as follows.Firstly,in terms of interpreting the words and phrases of the Khitan large script characters,the mountain name "Songshan" was interpreted,and it was determined that the burial site of the Khitan large script inscription "Zai" was Songshan,which is now located in the southern part of the Ongnuud Banner,also known as Iknarasutai Mountain.In Mongolian,it is(?).The reign title Qianheng(?)were and deciphered.The reign title Tonghe was discussed.Secondly,this paper interpreted the cardinal number "five"(?),"Jiqing(?),"Bohai" 口坐.Analyzed and discussed the structure and form of the large script characters,more importantly the plural and noun form additional components(?),proposing author’s own views.Finally,this paper made a systematic analysis of the additional elements in the grammatical category of possession in Khitan language and interpreted 10 itmes which are(?)-man,(?)-t∫’i～t∫i,仃-ben,(?)伏-s+ben,(?)+(?)出-te+a:n,出+(?)出-an+a:n,(?)出一en+a:n,(?)出一un+a:n,(?)出-er+a:n,(?)出-te+a:n.Furthermore,the author attached the interpreted glossary of Khitan large script words to the end of the article for reference which was sorted out in the process of combing previous research results.