Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Frontispiece -- Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- Biography of Alexander Vovin / Author: John Kupchik -- List of Publications by Alexander Vovin -- Tabula Gratulatoria -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Author: John Kupchik -- Part 1 East and Southeast Asia -- Chapter 1 The Last Days of Old Japanese -- Early Heian Gloss Texts and the Periodization of Japanese Language History / Author: Sven Osterkamp -- Chapter 2 Evidence of the Authorship of Nihon shoki / Author: John R. Bentley -- Chapter 3 On otsu-rui Ci₂ and Ce₂ and Root-Final Consonants in Pre-Old Japanese / Author: Bjarke Frellesvig -- Chapter 4 A Brief History of Linguistics in Japan -- With Special Reference to Studies on the Origin of the Japanese Language / Author: Toshiki Osada -- Chapter 5 Morphophonemics of Ikema Miyakoan / Author: Yukinori Takubo -- Chapter 6 The Etymology of maabu in Ryukyuan / Author: Moriyo Shimabukuro -- Chapter 7 Ainu Loanwords in Hachijō / Author: John Kupchik -- Chapter 8 Gaps in Transcriptions -- Chinese and Japanese Mid Front Vowels Transcribed in Korean Hangul / Author: Chihkai Lin -- Chapter 9 Retroflexion or Disyllabism? A Kra Puzzle / Author: Marc Miyake -- Part 2 Central and Western Asia -- Chapter 10 A Geographic and Lexical Puzzle: Colors in Names of Seas / Author: Irène Tamba -- Chapter 11 Hmong-Mien and Rgyalrongic / Author: Guillaume Jacques -- Chapter 12 Two Notes on the 'Phags-pa Script / Author: Dieter Maue -- Chapter 13 Preliminary Report on Louis Ligeti's Khitan Wordlist: The Numerals / Author: Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky -- Chapter 14 Khitan 'Coffin' / Author: András Róna-Tas -- Chapter 15 Chinese Loanwords in Chapter 10 of the Old Uyghur Xuanzang Biography / Author: Mehmet Ölmez -- Chapter 16 Karachay-Balkar andız -- The Case of a Phytonym in Turkic and Beyond / Author: Uwe Bläsing -- Chapter 17 On a Turkic Loanword in the Secret History of the Mongols -- Middle Mongol aram '(Cattle) Pen' / Author: Pavel Rykin -- Chapter 18 Issues of Comparative Uralic and Altaic Studies (5) -- The Status of Glides in Mongolic / Author: Juha Janhunen -- Part 3 Northern Asia and Across the Bering Strait -- Chapter 19 The Common Features of Buryat and Khamnigan Mongol: The Fate of the Mongolic *s / Author: Bayarma Khabtagaeva -- Chapter 20 Consonant Assimilations, Sibilants and Alveolars in Yakut / Author: Marek Stachowski -- Chapter 21 In Search of Evidentiality in Nivkh / Author: Ekaterina Gruzdeva -- Chapter 22 From Macroetymology to Microetymology -- Some Thoughts on Wanderwörter and Diachronic Dialectology / Author: José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente.

Professor Alexander V. Vovin's fruitful research has brought incomparable results to the fields of Asian linguistics and philology throughout the past four decades. In this volume, presented in honour of Professor Vovin's 60th birthday, twenty-two authors present new research regarding Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Khitan, Yakut, Mongolian, Chinese, Hachijō, Ikema Miyakoan, Ainu, Okinawan, Nivkh, Eskimo-Aleut and other languages. The chapters are both a tribute to his research and a summary of the latest developments in the field.

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