Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond

William McClure (1962) is Associate Professor at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author or editor of four books on Japanese language and linguistics. Currently, he is serving as the Dean of Arts and Humanities at Queens College.Alexander Vovin (1961), Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, is a Directeur d’études of Japanese and North-East Asian historical linguistics in this graduate university. He has published many monographs and articles on Japanese, Korean, Ainu, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic, including his multivolume edition and translation of the Man’yōshū (2009-) and A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (GO/Brill, 2005-2009).

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of TablesList of ContributorsJohn B. Whitman BibliographyTabula GratulatoriaDocumentation1 The Digital Museum Project for the Documentation of Endangered Languages: The Case of Ikema RyukyuanYukinori TakuboHistorical Linguistics2 Disentangling Japonic seaweed from Koreo-Japonic waterAnton Antonov3 On Feature Ranking in Japanese Onset ObstruentsBjarke Frellesvig4 Fishy Rhymes: Sino-Korean Evidence for Earlier Korean *eMarc H. Miyake5 A mokkan Perspective on Some Issues in Japanese Historical PhonologySven Osterkamp6 A (More) Comparative Approach to Some Japanese EtymologiesThomas Pellard7 The Role of Internal Reconstruction in Comparing the Accent Systems of Korean DialectsS. Robert Ramsey8 How Many OJ Syllables are Reflected in EMJ yo?J. Marshall Unger9 On the Etymology of the Name of Mt. FujiAlexander VovinTheoretical Linguistics10 Against a VP Ellipsis Account of Russian Verb-Stranding ConstructionsJohn Frederick Bailyn11 A New Approach to -zhe in Mandarin ChineseRedouane Djamouri and Waltraud Paul12 Japanese Experiential -te iruMamori Sugita Hughes and William McClure13 DP versus NP: A Cross-Linguistic Typology?Jaklin Kornfilt14 The Old Japanese Accusative Revisited: Realizing All the Universal OptionsShigeru Miyagawa15 Japanese Wh-Phrases as Unvalued OperatorsMamoru SaitoIndex