Studies in Asian Historical Linguistics, Philology and Beyond / edited by John Kupchik, José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente, Marc Hideo Miyake.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fuente, José Andrés Alonso de la, editor.

Kupchik, John, editor.

Miyake, Marc Hideo, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asia, Central--Languages--History.

Asia, Central.

East Asia--Languages--History.

East Asia.

Japanese language--History.

Japanese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Summary:

Professor Alexander V. Vovin's fruitful research has brought incomparable results to the fields of Asian linguistics and philology throughout the past four decades. In this volume, presented in honour of Professor Vovin's 60th birthday, twenty-two authors present new research regarding Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Khitan, Yakut, Mongolian, Chinese, Hachijō, Ikema Miyakoan, Ainu, Okinawan, Nivkh, Eskimo-Aleut and other languages. The chapters are both a tribute to his research and a summary of the latest developments in the field.

Contents:

Front Matter

Frontispiece

Preliminary Material

Copyright page

Biography of Alexander Vovin / Author: John Kupchik

List of Publications by Alexander Vovin

Tabula Gratulatoria

Acknowledgements

Introduction / Author: John Kupchik

Part 1 East and Southeast Asia

Chapter 1 The Last Days of Old Japanese

Early Heian Gloss Texts and the Periodization of Japanese Language History / Author: Sven Osterkamp

Chapter 2 Evidence of the Authorship of Nihon shoki / Author: John R. Bentley

Chapter 3 On otsu-rui Ci₂ and Ce₂ and Root-Final Consonants in Pre-Old Japanese / Author: Bjarke Frellesvig

Chapter 4 A Brief History of Linguistics in Japan

With Special Reference to Studies on the Origin of the Japanese Language / Author: Toshiki Osada

Chapter 5 Morphophonemics of Ikema Miyakoan / Author: Yukinori Takubo

Chapter 6 The Etymology of maabu in Ryukyuan / Author: Moriyo Shimabukuro

Chapter 7 Ainu Loanwords in Hachijō / Author: John Kupchik

Chapter 8 Gaps in Transcriptions

Chinese and Japanese Mid Front Vowels Transcribed in Korean Hangul / Author: Chihkai Lin

Chapter 9 Retroflexion or Disyllabism? A Kra Puzzle / Author: Marc Miyake

Part 2 Central and Western Asia

Chapter 10 A Geographic and Lexical Puzzle: Colors in Names of Seas / Author: Irène Tamba

Chapter 11 Hmong-Mien and Rgyalrongic / Author: Guillaume Jacques

Chapter 12 Two Notes on the 'Phags-pa Script / Author: Dieter Maue

Chapter 13 Preliminary Report on Louis Ligeti's Khitan Wordlist: The Numerals / Author: Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky

Chapter 14 Khitan 'Coffin' / Author: András Róna-Tas

Chapter 15 Chinese Loanwords in Chapter 10 of the Old Uyghur Xuanzang Biography / Author: Mehmet Ölmez

Chapter 16 Karachay-Balkar andız

The Case of a Phytonym in Turkic and Beyond / Author: Uwe Bläsing

Chapter 17 On a Turkic Loanword in the Secret History of the Mongols

Middle Mongol aram '(Cattle) Pen' / Author: Pavel Rykin

Chapter 18 Issues of Comparative Uralic and Altaic Studies (5)

The Status of Glides in Mongolic / Author: Juha Janhunen

Part 3 Northern Asia and Across the Bering Strait

Chapter 19 The Common Features of Buryat and Khamnigan Mongol: The Fate of the Mongolic *s / Author: Bayarma Khabtagaeva

Chapter 20 Consonant Assimilations, Sibilants and Alveolars in Yakut / Author: Marek Stachowski

Chapter 21 In Search of Evidentiality in Nivkh / Author: Ekaterina Gruzdeva

Chapter 22 From Macroetymology to Microetymology

Some Thoughts on Wanderwörter and Diachronic Dialectology / Author: José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004448568

900444856X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004448568 DOI