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.
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
Index
All interested in historical linguistics, language contact, philology and Central and East Asian linguistics.