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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.
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, ...
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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.
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.
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.
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