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A wealthy man, in a fit of anger, slaughters a black sheep that has been causing him trouble. Soon afterwards, a mysterious stranger offers to get rid of the carcass and does so without leaving any trace of its existence. Some weeks later, the same stranger appears with an unusual garment, a shawl with sleeves, which he insists on donating to the wealthy man and his wife. An odd series of events follows, with fatal consequences for a nightmare-plagued friend and a shock ending that baffles the police and leaves a senior officer unable to explain why he is present at a crime scene.

This book is a grammar of Mangghuer, a Mongolic language spoken by approximately 25,000 people in China's northwestern Qinghai Province. Mangghuer is virtually unknown outside China, and no grammar of Mangghuer has ever been published in any language. The book's primary importance is thus as a systematic grammatical description of a little-known language. The book also makes a significant contribution to comparative Mongolic studies. In addition to the synchronic description of Mangghuer, extensive comparison with other Mongolic languages is included, demonstrating the genetic relationship of...