Koguryo, the language of Japan's continental relatives : an introduction to the historical-comparative study of the Japanese-Koguryoic languages with a preliminary description of Archaic northeastern Middle Chinese / / by Christopher I. Beckwith.

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 Kogu...

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Superior document:Brill's Japanese studies library, v. 21
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Year of Publication:2007
Edition:2nd ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 21.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / C.I. Beckwith
  • Introduction / C.I. Beckwith
  • Chapter One. Koguryo and the origins of japanese / C.I. Beckwith
  • Chapter Two. The ethnolinguistic history of Koguryo / C.I. Beckwith
  • Chapter Three. The old Koguryo toponyms / C.I. Beckwith
  • Chapter Four. Archaic northeastern middle chinese / C.I. Beckwith
  • Chapter Five. Old Koguryo phonology / C.I. Beckwith
  • Chapter Six. Toward common Japanese-Koguryoic / C.I. Beckwith
  • Chapter Seven. The Proto-Japanese-Koguryoic homeland / C.I. Beckwith
  • Chapter Eight. Koguryo and the Altaic divergence theories / C.I. Beckwith
  • Chapter Nine. The Altaic convergence theory / C.I. Beckwith
  • Chapter Ten. Japanese and the mixed language theory / C.I. Beckwith
  • Chapter Eleven. Linguistic theory and Japanese-Koguryoic / C.I. Beckwith
  • Koguryo lexicon / C.I. Beckwith
  • Bibliography / C.I. Beckwith
  • Index / C.I. Beckwith.