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 (296 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

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

Contents:

Preliminary Material / C.I. Beckwith

Introduction / C.I. Beckwith

Chapter One. Koguryo and the origins of japanese / C.I. Beckwith

Chapter Two. The ethnolinguistic history of Koguryo / C.I. Beckwith

Chapter Three. The old Koguryo toponyms / C.I. Beckwith

Chapter Four. Archaic northeastern middle chinese / C.I. Beckwith

Chapter Five. Old Koguryo phonology / C.I. Beckwith

Chapter Six. Toward common Japanese-Koguryoic / C.I. Beckwith

Chapter Seven. The Proto-Japanese-Koguryoic homeland / C.I. Beckwith

Chapter Eight. Koguryo and the Altaic divergence theories / C.I. Beckwith

Chapter Nine. The Altaic convergence theory / C.I. Beckwith

Chapter Ten. Japanese and the mixed language theory / C.I. Beckwith

Chapter Eleven. Linguistic theory and Japanese-Koguryoic / C.I. Beckwith

Koguryo lexicon / C.I. Beckwith

Bibliography / C.I. Beckwith

Index / C.I. Beckwith.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-39711-7

9786612397110

90-474-2028-4

OCLC:

609847241

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004160255.I-274 DOI