Full Description
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
Biography of Alexander Vovin
John Kupchik
List of Publications by Alexander Vovin
Tabula Gratulatoria
Acknowledgements
Introduction
John Kupchik
Part 1: East and Southeast Asia
1 The Last Days of Old Japanese
Early Heian Gloss Texts and the Periodization of Japanese Language History
Sven Osterkamp
2 Evidence of the Authorship of Nihon shoki
John Bentley
3 On otsu-rui Ci₂ and Ce₂ and Root-Final Consonants in Pre-Old Japanese
Bjarke Frellesvig
4 A Brief History of Linguistics in Japan
With Special Reference to Studies on the Origin of the Japanese Language
Toshiki Osada
5 Morphophonemics of Ikema Miyakoan
Yukinori Takubo
6 The Etymology of maabu in Ryukyuan
Moriyo Shimabukuro
7 Ainu Loanwords in Hachijō
John Kupchik
8 Gaps in Transcriptions
Chinese and Japanese Mid Front Vowels Transcribed in Korean Hangul
Chihkai Lin
9 Retroflexion or Disyllabism? A Kra Puzzle
Marc Miyake
Part 2: Central and Western Asia
10 A Geographic and Lexical Puzzle: Colors in Names of Seas
Irène Tamba
11 Hmong-Mien and Rgyalrongic
Guillaume Jacques
12 Two Notes on the ‛Phags-pa Script
Dieter Maue
13 Preliminary Report on Louis Ligeti's Khitan Wordlist: The Numerals
Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky
14 Khitan 'Coffin'
András Róna-Tas
15 Chinese Loanwords in Chapter 10 of the Old Uyghur Xuanzang Biography
Mehmet Ölmez
16 Karachay-Balkar andız
The Case of a Phytonym in Turkic and Beyond
Uwe Bläsing
17 On a Turkic Loanword in the Secret History of the Mongols
Middle Mongol aram '(Cattle) Pen'
Pavel Rykin
18 Issues of Comparative Uralic and Altaic Studies (5)
The Status of Glides in Mongolic
Juha Janhunen
Part 3: Northern Asia and Across the Bering Strait
19 The Common Features of Buryat and Khamnigan Mongol: The Fate of the Mongolic *s
Bayarma Khabtagaeva
20 Consonant Assimilations, Sibilants and Alveolars in Yakut
Marek Stachowski
21 In Search of Evidentiality in Nivkh
Ekaterina Gruzdeva
22 From Macroetymology to Microetymology
Some Thoughts on Wanderwörter and Diachronic Dialectology
José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente
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