Alexander Vovin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexander Vovin plays a role.
Articles
2013 From Koguryǒ to T’amna: Slowly riding to the South with speakers of Proto-Korean Korean Historical Linguistics, pp. 217–235
This article recapitulates some old evidence for the Japonic linguistic substratum in Silla and Paekche in and for the lack of thereof in Koguryǒ. It also introduces some new evidence for the same linguistic distribution. The new evidence for Koguryǒ comes mainly from words recorded in Chinese… read more | Article
2008 Proto-Japanese beyond the accent system Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects, Frellesvig, Bjarke and John Whitman (eds.), pp. 141–156
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2005 Review of Greenberg (2002): Indo-European and Its Closest Relatives: The Eurasiatic language family. Volume 2: Lexicon Diachronica 22:1, pp. 184–191
Review
2003 From mass comparison to mess comparison: Greenberg’s Indo-European and its Closest Relatives Diachronica 20:2, pp. 331–362
Review article
2001 Review article:North East Asian historical-comparative linguistics on the threshold of the third millennium Diachronica 18:1, pp. 93–137
Review article
2000 On the great vowel shift in middle Korean and position of stress in proto-Korean Korean Linguistics 10, pp. 61–78
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1999 41. Once Again on the Reading of the Old Korean The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner, Embleton, Sheila, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 289 ff.
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1998 Nostratic and Altaic Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence, Salmons, Joseph C. and Brian D. Joseph (eds.), pp. 257 ff.
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1995 Once Again on the Accusative Marker in Old Korean Diachronica 12:2, pp. 223–236
SUMMARY Miller (1977) proposed reconstructing the Old Korean accusative marker as hel < *gel and compared it with the Old Turkic accusative = j/=g, the Mongolian accusative =[ii]g, and the Tungusic directive-locative =kilaa/=kilii. His proposal was criticized in Martin (1990). I will argue that… read more | Article
1994 Long-Distance Relationships, Reconstruction Methodology, and the Origins of Japanese Diachronica 11:1, pp. 95–114
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