Koguryo, the language of Japan's continental relatives : an introduction to the historical-comparative study of the Japanese Koguryoic languages with a preliminary description of Archaic northeastern Middle Chinese / by Christopher I. Beckwith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beckwith, Christopher I., 1945-

Series:

Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 21.

Brill's Japanese studies library, 0925-6512 ; v. 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese language--Foreign elements--Korean.

Japanese language.

Korean language--Influence on Japanese.

Korean language.

Korean language--To 935--Etymology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first in-depth study of the extinct Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and northern Korea. It covers the ethnolinguistic history of the Koguryo nation, philological treatment of the sources for the language, Koguryo phonology, and a complete glossary of all Archaic Koguryo and Old Koguryo words. Special attention has been given to the theory and practice of lexically-based historical-comparative linguistics. The genetic relationship of Koguryo to Japanese is shown to be secure, unlike the non-relationship of either language to Korean or Altaic, and much light is shed on the ethnolinguistic origins of Japanese. The special phonological features of the underlying transcriptional language, the archaic northeastern Middle Chinese dialect once spoken in Korea, are also analyzed."

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Transcription and Transliteration

Map

Introduction

1. Koguryo and the Origins of Japanese

2. The Ethnolinguistic History of Koguryo

3. The Old Koguryo Toponyms

4. Archaic Northeastern Middle Chinese

5. Old Koguryo Phonology

6. Toward Common Japanese-Koguryoic

7. The Proto-Japanese-Koguryoic Homeland

8. Koguryo and the Altaic Divergence Theories

9. The Altaic Convergence Theory

10. Japanese and the Mixed Language Theory

11. Linguistic Theory and Japanese-Koguryoic

12. The Japanese-Koguryoic Family of Languages

Koguryo Lexicon

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-265) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-280-91541-2

9786610915415

90-474-0576-5

1-4294-0818-9

OCLC:

191935078

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047405764 DOI