Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One: Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Kitan words in Chinese works -- 1.3 Creation of the Kitan scripts -- 1.4 Use of the Kitan script under the Jin -- 1.5 The Kitan inscriptions -- 1.6 Name of the Liao State -- 1.7 The Yelü clan and the Xiao clan -- 1.8 Names of Liao emperors -- 1.9 Reign titles of Liao emperors -- 1.10 Reign titles of Jin emperors -- 1.11 The ten stems and twelve branches -- 1.12 The five colours or the five elements -- 1.13 Cyclical stems -- the five elements -- the five colours -- 1.14 The twelve animals -- 1.15 Sources -- 1.16 Early Chinese research -- 1.17 Arrangement of the small graphs to form words -- 1.18 Japanese research -- 1.19 Russian and other research -- 1.20 The Kitan Small Script Research Group -- 1.21 Research on Kitan words in Chinese sources -- 1.22 Research since Research -- 1.23 Other research -- 1.24 Transcription of the small Kitan script -- 1.25 Transcription of logographs -- 1.26 The dotted forms -- 1.27 Similar and probably identical graphs -- 1.28 Probably miswritten graphs -- 1.29 Similar but different graphs -- 1.30 Phonograms -- 1.31 Graphs only used to write Chinese -- 1.32 Symbols used for the Kitan vowels -- 1.33 Syllables of the VV type -- 1.34 Syllables of the VC type -- 1.35 Syllables of the C and CV type -- 1.36 Vowel harmony -- 1.37 Inherent vowels -- 1.38 Possible multiple readings of Kitan graphs -- Chapter Two: Analysis of the Kitan small graphs -- Chapter Three: English-Kitan glossary -- Chapter Four: Morphology -- 4.1 Accusative-instrumental in -- 4.2 The genitive in an -- 4.3 The genitive in en -- 4.4 The genitive in in -- 4.5 The genitive in on -- 4.6 The genitive in un -- 4.7 The genitive in n -- 4.8 The genitive in in -- 4.9 The genitive in i -- 4.10 The dative-locative in de -- 4.11 The dative-locative in do.

4.12 The dative-locative in du -- 4.13 The dative-locative in iu -- 4.14 The prolative (ablative) in de.i -- 4.15 The plural in d -- 4.16 The plural in t -- 4.17 The plural in ad -- 4.18 The plural in od -- 4.19 The plural in ud -- 4.20 The plural in se -- 4.21 Other plurals -- 4.22 Order of suffixes -- 4.23 Summary table of genitive, dative and plural suffixes -- 4.24 Ordinal numbers used with masculine nouns -- 4.25 Ordinal numbers used with feminine nouns -- 4.26 Grammatical gender: past tense of verbs -- 4.27 Grammatical gender: the dotted forms -- 4.28 Verbal morphology -- 4.29 The past tense in ar -- 4.30 The past tense in er -- 4.31 The past tense in or -- 4.32 The past tense in l.un -- 4.33 The past tense in bo.n ~ b.un ~ bun -- 4.34 The causative/passive in le.ha ~ le.ge -- 4.35 Causatives and passives in context -- 4.36 The converb in vowel + i -- 4.37 The converb in -s.ii -- 4.38 Converbs in context -- 4.39 The converb in al -- 4.40 The converbs in ci and ji -- 4.41 Finite verbs and converbs in context -- 4.42 Verbal nouns in vowel + [n] -- 4.43 Verbal nouns in bo.n -- 4.44 Verbal nouns and adjectives in hu gi ho -- 4.45 Copula: p.u ~ b.u 'to be' -- 4.46 Copula: ei 'to have, to exist' -- 4.47 The copula: iu 'not to exist, to die' -- 4.48 The copula: a -- 4.49 Supplement: Reign titles -- 4.50 Notes on Liao reign titles -- 4.51 Some comments on the word for Kitan -- 4.52 Some comments on the word for Jurchen -- Chapter Five: The Kitan large script -- 5.1 The nature of the Kitan large script -- 5.2 Sources -- 5.3 Early research (until 2000) -- 5.4 Recent research (since 2000) -- 5.5 The five elements / five colours -- 5.6 The four seasons -- 5.7 The four directions -- 5.8 The twelve zodiac animals -- 5.9 Numerals -- 5.10 List of graphs used to write Chinese titles in the large script.

5.11 Glossary of basic words in the Kitan large script -- Chapter Six: Texts in the Kitan small script -- 6.1 The Langjun inscription -- 6.2 Chinese text of the Langjun inscription -- 6.3 Kitan text of the Langjun inscription -- 6.4 The Epitaph of Yelü Dilie -- 6.5 Biography of Yelü Dilie from the Liaoshi -- 6.6 Kitan text of the Epitaph of Yelü Dilie -- 6.7 Partial translation of the Epitaph of Yelü Dilie -- 6.8 Kitan text of the Eulogy for Empress Xuanyi -- 6.9 Translation of Chinese text of the Eulogy for Empress Xuanyi -- Chapter Seven: Liao Chinese -- 7.1 The Chinese language beyond Hebei -- 7.2 Northeastern China during the Late Tang -- 7.3 Possible altaic influence on Chinese -- 7.4 Middle Chinese -- 7.5 Synoptic chart of transcription symbols for MC initials -- 7.6 Transcription of MC finals -- 7.7 The rhyme groups of LMC -- 7.8 Late Tang North-western Chinese -- 7.9 The Sisheng dengzi -- 7.10 The Qieyun zhizhangtu -- 7.11 The Huangji jingshi shu -- 7.12 The fanqie spellings of Zhu Xi -- 7.13 Rhymes in Northern Song poetry -- 7.14 Xixia transcriptions -- 7.15 The Zhongyuan yinyun -- 7.16 The Menggu ziyun -- 7.17 Uighur and Xixia transcriptions of Chinese -- 7.18 Kitan and hP'agspa transcriptions of Liao-Yuan Chinese -- 7.19 Rhymes in Liao poetry -- 7.20 Development of rhyme groups from Late Tang to Yuan -- 7.21 Finals in Liao Chinese -- 7.22 The question of the glottal stop -- 7.23 Finals derived from MC final stops in Kitan transcription -- 7.24 Kitan transcriptions of characters with MC final stops -- 7.25 Initials of Liao Chinese -- 7.26 Conclusions -- 7.27 The phonological system of Liao Chinese -- 7.28 Suggested Liao Chinese readings -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index of graphs.