Studies in Early Japanese Morphophonemics

Second Edition

(Bloomington: Indiana Linguistics Club, 1993).

"This is an innovative and widely influential work, which [Roy Andrew] Miller repeatedly dismisses as Unger's 'still unpublished' dissertation, despite the fact that a paperback edition has been available for purchase since 1977, and a second edition appeared in 1993, with interesting new remarks in the preface." --Samuel E. Martin, Consonant Lenition in Korean and the Macro-Altaic Question (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996) p. 72 n. 5.

Other publications on the history of the Japanese language:

Articles

2001 "Layers of Words and Volcanic Ash in Japan and Korea." Journal of Japanese Studies vol. 27 no. 1 pp. 81-111.

2000 "Reconciling Comparative and Internal Reconstruction: The Case of Old Japanese /ti ri ni/." Language vol. 76 no.3 pp. 655-81.

1990 "Japanese and What Other Altaic Languages?" Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology, ed. Philip Baldi, pp. 547-61. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

1988 "Middle Chinese Syllable-Final Stops in Sino-Japanese: A Critique of Vance's Theory." Journal of the American Oriental Society vol. 108 no. 4 pp. 627-31.

1983 "The Classification of Old Japanese Adjectives," with Yooko Itoo Tomita. Papers in East Asian Languages vol. 1 pp. 52-65.

1980 "Etymology of the Word /kana/." Papers in Japanese Linguistics vol. 7 pp. 173-84.

1980 "Revision of Proto-Korean-Japanese *s." Korean Linguistics vol. 2 pp. 91-96.

1978 "Intuition and Rigor: More on Kô-type O-ending Syllables in Old Japanese." Papers in Japanese Linguistics vol. 5 pp. 337-92.

1975 "On the Kô-type O-ending Syllables of Old Japanese." Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese vol. 10 nos. 2-3 pp. 201-207.

1974 "Dôshi katsuyôkei no kigen shiron [Initial Theory of the Origins of Japanese Verb Conjugations]." Abstract. Kokugogaku no. 98 pp. 81-82.

1971 "Evidence of a Consonant Shift in Seventh-Century Japanese," with S. Robert Ramsey. Papers in Japanese Linguistics vol. 1 no. 2 pp. 270-95.

Book Reviews

1998 Language Contact in Japan: A Socio-linguistic History, by Leo J. Loveday. Anthropological Linguistics vol. 40 no. 2 pp. 346-48.

1997 A Case Study in Diachronic Phonology: The Japanese Onbin Sound Changes, by Bjarke Frellesvig. Diachronica vol. 14 no. 2 pp. 363-66.

1997 Japan's Name Culture, by Herbert Plutschow. Journal of Japanese Studies vol. 23 no. 1 pp. 206-10.

1995 Diversity in Japanese Language and Culture, edited by John C. Maher and Gaynor Macdonald. The Times Higher Education Supplement (London), 25 August.

1982 The Genetic Relationship of the Ainu Language, by James Patrie. Papers in Linguistics vol. 15 no. 4 pp. 317-20.

1981 Origins of the Japanese Language, by Roy Andrew Miller. Journal of Asian Studies vol. 41 no. 1 pp. 145-47.

1974 The Phonology of Eighth-Century Japanese, by Roland A. Lange. Canadian Journal of Linguistics vol. 19 no. 2 pp. 217-24.

1973 Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages, by Roy Andrew Miller. Papers in Japanese Linguistics vol. 2 no. 1 pp. 155-69.

 
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