{"product_id":"studies-in-asian-historical-linguistics-philology-and-beyond-9789004448551","title":"Studies in Asian Historical Linguistics, Philology and Beyond","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessor 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBiography 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    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210816807255,"sku":"9789004448551","price":148.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/studies-in-asian-historical-linguistics-philology-and-beyond-9789004448551","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}