| Koguryo: The Language of Japan's Continental Relatives: An Introduction to the Historical-Comparative Study of the Japanese-Koguryoic Languages, with Contributor(s): Beckwith (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004160256 ISBN-13: 9789004160255 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $170.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: This book describes the Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and Korea, including Koguryo and Japanese ethnolinguistic history, Koguryo's genetic relationship to Japanese, Koguryo phonology, and the Koguryo lexicon. It also analyzes the phonology of archaic Northeastern Chinese. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Japanese - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Etymology - Social Science |
| Dewey: 495.624 |
| Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Library |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.5" W x 9.7" (1.35 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first in-depth study of the extinct Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and northern Korea. It covers the ethnolinguistic history of the Koguryo nation, philological treatment of the sources for the language, Koguryo phonology, and a complete glossary of all Archaic Koguryo and Old Koguryo words. Special attention has been given to the theory and practice of lexically-based historical-comparative linguistics. The genetic relationship of Koguryo to Japanese is shown to be secure, unlike the non-relationship of either language to Korean or Altaic, and much light is shed on the ethnolinguistic origins of Japanese. The special phonological features of the underlying transcriptional language, the archaic northeastern Middle Chinese dialect once spoken in Korea, are also analyzed." |
