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 VovinJohn KupchikList of Publications by Alexander VovinTabula GratulatoriaAcknowledgementsIntroductionJohn KupchikPart 1: East and Southeast Asia1 The Last Days of Old JapaneseEarly Heian Gloss Texts and the Periodization of Japanese Language History Sven Osterkamp2 Evidence of the Authorship of Nihon shokiJohn Bentley3 On otsu-rui Ci₂ and Ce₂ and Root-Final Consonants in Pre-Old JapaneseBjarke Frellesvig4 A Brief History of Linguistics in JapanWith Special Reference to Studies on the Origin of the Japanese LanguageToshiki Osada5 Morphophonemics of Ikema MiyakoanYukinori Takubo6 The Etymology of maabu in RyukyuanMoriyo Shimabukuro7 Ainu Loanwords in HachijōJohn Kupchik8 Gaps in TranscriptionsChinese and Japanese Mid Front Vowels Transcribed in Korean HangulChihkai Lin9 Retroflexion or Disyllabism? A Kra PuzzleMarc MiyakePart 2: Central and Western Asia10 A Geographic and Lexical Puzzle: Colors in Names of SeasIrène Tamba11 Hmong-Mien and RgyalrongicGuillaume Jacques12 Two Notes on the ‛Phags-pa ScriptDieter Maue13 Preliminary Report on Louis Ligeti’s Khitan Wordlist: The NumeralsÁkos Bertalan Apatóczky14 Khitan ‘Coffin’András Róna-Tas15 Chinese Loanwords in Chapter 10 of the Old Uyghur Xuanzang BiographyMehmet Ölmez16 Karachay-Balkar andızThe Case of a Phytonym in Turkic and BeyondUwe Bläsing17 On a Turkic Loanword in the Secret History of the MongolsMiddle Mongol aram ‘(Cattle) Pen’Pavel Rykin18 Issues of Comparative Uralic and Altaic Studies (5)The Status of Glides in MongolicJuha JanhunenPart 3: Northern Asia and Across the Bering Strait19 The Common Features of Buryat and Khamnigan Mongol: The Fate of the Mongolic *sBayarma Khabtagaeva20 Consonant Assimilations, Sibilants and Alveolars in YakutMarek Stachowski21 In Search of Evidentiality in NivkhEkaterina Gruzdeva22 From Macroetymology to MicroetymologySome Thoughts on Wanderwörter and Diachronic DialectologyJosé Andrés Alonso de la FuenteIndex