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001 ocm54988973
003 OCoLC
005 20051221034708.0
008 040412s2004 maub b 001 0 eng
010 $a2004049680
020 $a9004139494 (hd. cover)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dXFF
041 0 $aeng$akor
042 $apcc
043 $aae-----
049 $aXFFA
090 $aPL497$b.B43 2004
100 1 $aBeckwith, Christopher I.,$d1945-
245 10 $aKoguryo, the language of Japan's continental relatives :$ban introduction to the historical-comparative study of the Japanese Koguryoic languages with a preliminary description of Archaic northeastern Middle Chinese /$cby Christopher I. Beckwith.
246 30 $aIntroduction to the historical-comparative study of the japanese Koguryoic languages with a preliminary description of Archaic northeastern Middle Chinese
260 $aBoston :$bBrill,$c2004.
300 $axxi, 274 p. :$bmap ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aBrill's Japanese studies library,$x0925-6512 ;$vv. 21
520 1 $a"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 of 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."--BOOK JACKET
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-265) and index.
500 $aGift of the Korea Foundation.
650 0 $aKoguryo language.
650 0 $aJapanese language$yTo 794$xEtymology.
907 $a.b20746258$bmulti$c-
902 $a080122
998 $b1$c060131$dm$ea$f-$g0
902 $asc