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Article: 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.(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2005
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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. Brill's Japanese Studies Library, vol. 21. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 274 pages. $124.00 cloth.
This volume is an attempt to recover the ethnolinguistic history of the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo/Kogury0 (henceforth Kogury0), recently brought to the attention of the public by a politico-historical controversy. It focuses on the reconstruction of the Kogury0 language and its relations to other languages, which will also be ...
<*miak 'eye' (p. 157) is simply teleological: the Hateruma form "min" (said ad hoc to go back to *mina) quoted as evidence is simply the regular reflex of Proto-Ryukyuan *me, with a lexicalized nasal suffix (Martin 1987: 74-75; Oyler 1997). Similarly, the reconstructions of PJ *rmaj>