Korea-Japonica : A Re-Evaluation of a Common Genetic Origin

by Vovin, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9780824832780
• ISBN10: 0824832787
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-30
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

The Japonic (Japanese and Ryukyuan) portmanteau language family and the Korean language have long been considered isolates on the fringe of northeast Asia. This text challenges a view widely held by Japonic and Korean historical linguistics on the relationship between the two language families.

Table of Contents

Charts	p. IX
Acknowledgments	p. XI
Abbreviations	p. XIII
Introduction	p. 3
Proto-Korean And Proto-Japonic Reconstructions And Their Role In The Comparison Of The Two Languages	p. 11
Recent Advances In Proto-Korean Reconstruction	p. 11
Middle Korean aspirates are from clusters	p. 11
Proto-Korean did not have vowel harmony	p. 11
A new look at lenition in Middle Korean	p. 12
Recent Advances In Proto-Japonic Reconstruction	p. 32
Six or seven, not four vowels in Proto-Japonic	p. 32
Another look at PJ *b- and *d	p. 36
Morphological Comparisons	p. 45
Nominal Morphology	p. 45
Case marking	p. 45
Pronouns	p. 62
Adjectives	p. 71
Verbal Morphology	p. 73
The odd nature of the copula tö	p. 73
Verbal markers	p. 77
Lexical Comparisons	p. 92
Doublets In Western Old Japanese	p. 92
Whitman's Lexical Comparisons	p. 94
*p	p. 94
*b	p. 111
*t	p. 113
*d	p. 126
*k	p. 128
*c	p. 161
*j	p. 169
*s	p. 172
*z	p. 186
*¿	p. 186
*m	p. 190
*n	p. 203
*y	p. 218
*a	p. 222
*Ü-,*Ö	p. 229
*u-,*O	p. 231
*e	p. 233
*i	p. 236
Statistical Summary Of Lexical Comparisons And Conclusion	p. 237
References	p. 241
Index	p. 251
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