A. K. Peters, Ltd. 2005. — 182 p. — ISBN: 9781568812380. "Among the many expositions of Gödel's incompleteness theorems written for non-specialists, this book stands apart. With exceptional clarity, Franzén gives careful, non-technical explanations both of what those theorems say and, more importantly, what they do not. No other book aims, as his does, to address in detail the...
Dissertation. — Ohio State University, 2016. — 501 p. Even after more than a century of linguistic research, the question of whether the Japanese and Korean languages share a common origin remains unanswered. This dissertation presents evidence for a comprehensive theory that Japanese and Korean descend from the same ancestor language, ‘proto-Korean-Japanese’. I employ the...
Brill, 2012. — (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture 02). — ISBN: 978-90-04-23047-7. Genealogical linguistics and areal linguistics are rarely treated from an integrated perspective even if they are twin faces of diachronic linguistics. In Copies versus Cognates in Bound Morphology Lars Johanson and Martine Robbeets take up this challenge. The result is a wealth...
PhD Dissertation. — The University of Sydney, 2009. — 350 p. This thesis is an investigation into how a dying language is used by its last speakers. The language in question is Uchinaaguchi – the original vernacular of a speech community in the city of Naha (which now incorporates the historical capital Shuri), located on Okinawa Island in the Japanese Ryukyu archipelago (see Map...
Brill, 1990. — (Brill's Japanese Studies Library 03). — ISBN: 978-90-04-09081-1. This book deals chronologically with the history of writing in Japan, a subject which spans a period of 2,000 years, beginning with the transmission of writing from China in about the first or second century AD, and concluding with the use of written Japanese with computers. Topics dealt with...
Brill, 2017. — (Languages of Asia 16). The Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond presented in honour of Prof. John B. Whitman includes contributions by a range of mid-generation to senior scholars among his closest colleagues and collaborators representing the front line of contemporary research in the areas of historical and theoretical...
Jiangsu Educational Press, 2002. The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects (Chinese: 現代漢語方言大詞典; pinyin: Xiàndài Hànyǔ fāngyán dà cídiǎn) is a compendium of dictionaries for 42 local varieties of Chinese following a common format. The individual dictionaries cover dialects spread across the dialect groups identified in the Language Atlas of China.
Cambridge, Mass.: Mother Tongue Press, 2017. — 546 p. This book is the most comprehensive and detailed treatment of the Euskaro-Caucasian hypothesis, i.e., a proposal that the Basque language is most closely related to the North Caucasian language family. A more or less similar hypothesis was developed in the twentieth century by prominent scholars, including C.C. Uhlenbeck,...
Brill, 2017. — 200 p. — (Languages of Asia Classic Texts 01). We begin this classic reprint series with the publication of Grammatika man’chzhurskogo iazyka (A Grammar of the Manchu Language, 1879) by Ivan Il’ich Zakharov. Despite the fact that a number of grammars, sketches and textbooks of the Classical Manchu language appeared in the twentieth century, Zakharov’s grammar...
Revised, corrected, and expanded edition. — Florence, SC: 2018. — 320 p. The latest in-depth treatment by Allan R. Bomhard of the Nostratic Hypothesis. All aspects (phonology, morphology, vocabulary, homelands, etc.) of Nostratic are covered. Voluminous references are given to the relevant literature.
Third revised, corrected, and expanded edition. — Florence, SC: 2018. — 759 p. The latest in-depth treatment by Allan R. Bomhard of the Nostratic Hypothesis. All aspects (phonology, morphology, vocabulary, homelands, etc.) of Nostratic are covered. Voluminous references are given to the relevant literature.
Third revised, corrected, and expanded edition. — Florence, SC: 2018. — 1191 p. The latest in-depth treatment by Allan R. Bomhard of the Nostratic Hypothesis. All aspects (phonology, morphology, vocabulary, homelands, etc.) of Nostratic are covered. Voluminous references are given to the relevant literature.
Third revised, corrected, and expanded edition. — Florence, SC: 2018. — 594 p. The latest in-depth treatment by Allan R. Bomhard of the Nostratic Hypothesis. All aspects (phonology, morphology, vocabulary, homelands, etc.) of Nostratic are covered. Voluminous references are given to the relevant literature.
Third revised, corrected, and expanded edition. — Florence, SC: 2018. — 768 p. The latest in-depth treatment by Allan R. Bomhard of the Nostratic Hypothesis. All aspects (phonology, morphology, vocabulary, homelands, etc.) of Nostratic are covered. Voluminous references are given to the relevant literature.
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 576 p. A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century. Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and...
Global Oriental, 2007. — 392 p. — (Languages of Asia 02). This book looks into the accentual history of the Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages. Applying the comparative method, the author has reconstructed the accentual history of the Japonic languages. The reconstruction is based on modern dialects of Japanese and Ryukyuan, and also on historical materials.