Крейнович, Ерухим Абрамович. Глагол кетского языка / АН СССР, Институт языкознания ; ответственный редактор С. Д. Кацнельсон ; художник С. Н. Тарасов.
Ленинград: Наука, Ленинградское отделение, 1968. 283 с.; 22 см.
Издательский переплет. Тираж 1200 экземпляров.
Переплет - хорошее: потертости углов и краев, светлое пятно потертости и небольшая утрата на задней крышке. Блок - хорошее: форзацы потемнели, на них светлые следы удаленных вклеек.
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Kreinovich, Erukhim Abramovich. The Ket Verb (Glagol ketskogo yazyka) / USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Linguistics ; edited by S. D. Katsnelson ; artist S. N. Tarasov.
Leningrad: Nauka, Leningrad Branch, 1968. 283 pages; 22 cm.
Publisher's binding. Print run 1,200 copies.
Binding - Good: rubbed corners and edges, a pale rubbed patch and a small loss on the back cover. Text block - Good+: browned endpapers with pale marks where something was removed.
Erukhim Abramovich Kreinovich (1906-1985), a pupil of Lev Shternberg at Leningrad University, began as a specialist in Nivkh (Gilyak) language and culture, working on Sakhalin and helping to create a written form of Nivkh in the 1930s. Arrested in 1937, he spent years in the Kolyma camps, where he studied Yukaghir, Koryak and Even; after a second arrest in the late 1940s he was exiled to northern Krasnoyarsk Krai, where he collected his first material on Ket. Released in 1954 and rehabilitated in 1955, he joined the Paleo-Asiatic sector of the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Linguistics in 1956. This monograph, edited by S. D. Katsnelson, is announced in its annotation as the first attempt at a description of the Ket verb, and it grew into his doctoral dissertation of 1971. Ket is the only surviving member of the Yeniseian family, and its verb, built on a rigid system of prefix slots marking subject, object, tense and root, with developed incorporation, is among the most intricate in northern Eurasia. The book is cited as one of the breakthrough works on Ket grammar of the 1960s and 1970s, beside Dulzon's Ket language (Tomsk, 1968), and it remains a point of reference for Yeniseian studies and for the Dene-Yeniseian hypothesis. It was issued in only 1,200 copies, and a slip of errata is pasted into this copy. A scholarly monograph rather than a trade book, it appeals to linguists, students of Siberian and Paleo-Asiatic languages, and collectors of Soviet linguistics and of the history of the northern peoples. This copy carries two library stamps and shelf marks.