Review published In:
Korean Historical Linguistics[Korean Linguistics 15:2] 2013
► pp. 247–260
Book review
. A History of the Korean Language. Ki-Moon Lee & Robert Ramsey. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 336 pp. $119.00 (Hardback).
Reviewed by
John Whitman | Cornell University, USA and the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan
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