The Role of Contact in the Origins of the Japanese and Korean Language

Informationen zum Autor J. Marshall Unger is Emeritus Professor of Japanese at Ohio State University. His research has focused on the history of Japanese, teaching Japanese as a second language, and writing systems of East Asia. Two of his books, The Fifth Generation Fallacy and Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan, are available in Japanese. Klappentext Despite decades of research on the reconstruction of proto-Korean-Japanese (pKJ), some scholars reject a genetic relationship. This study addresses their doubts in a different way, interpreting comparative linguistic data within a context of material and cultural evidence. Zusammenfassung Despite decades of research on the reconstruction of proto-Korean-Japanese (pKJ)! some scholars reject a genetic relationship. This study addresses their doubts in a different way! interpreting comparative linguistic data within a context of material and cultural evidence.

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• Authors: J Marshall Unger, J. Marshall Unger, J.marshall Unger
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2008
• EAN: 9780824832797
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3279-7
• No. of pages: 207
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics