Word formation in Mongolic languages - sources

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Word formation in Mongolic languages - sources

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Do someone have a good sources about word formation in any Mongolic languages (mainly Khalkha or Kalmyk) ?
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Did you ever find out?
I had a similar question about Algic languages recently.
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There's a couple nice sections on word formation in the Routledge Language Family series entry on Mongolic. Nothing on Kalmyk that I see from the index, but there's a section on Khalkha written by Jan-Olof Svantesson. Khalkha vocabulary in particular is described as being "a closely woven web of interrelated words connected by derivative suffixes."
天含青海道。城頭月千里。
/tʰiæn ɣɑm tsʰieŋ.hɑ́i dʱɑ́u ‖ ʑʱeŋ dʱəu ᵑgyæɾ tsʰiæn lí/
The sky swallows the road to Kokonor. On the Great Wall, a thousand miles of moonlight.
—/lí ɣɑ̀/ (李賀), tr. A. C. Graham
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