Studies in Asian Historical Linguistics, Philology and Beyond

John Kupchik, Ph.D. (2011), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, is a Research Fellow in the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics at the University of Auckland. He has published research on Eastern Old Japanese, Hachijō, historical linguistics, etymology and phonology. José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente, Ph.D. (2012), University of the Basque Country. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on the historical and comparative linguistics of various language families from Northeast Asia, including Tense, Voice and Aktionsart in Tungusic: Another Case of »Analysis to Synthesis«? (Harrassowitz, 2011). Marc Hideo Miyake, Ph.D. (1999), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, is an independent scholar specializing in deciphering extinct languages. He has published Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction (Routledge, 2003), and articles on Pyu, Tangut, Jurchen, Khitan, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese.

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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