The Role of Contact in the Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages / / J. Marshall Unger.

Despite decades of research on the reconstruction of proto-Korean-Japanese (pKJ), some scholars still reject a genetic relationship. This study addresses their doubts in a new way, interpreting comparative linguistic data within a context of material and cultural evidence, much of which has come to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]
©2009
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conventions
  • Introduction
  • 1 Contact Hypotheses and Their Consequences
  • 2 Critical Assessment of the pKJ Reconstruction
  • 3 Convergence Theories
  • 4 Japanese Borrowings from Old Korean 4 Japanese Borrowings from Old Korean
  • 5 Syncretism in Japanese Mythology
  • 6 The Korean Role in the Rise of Kofun Culture
  • 7 Languages in Contact with Early Japanese
  • Works Cited
  • Indexes