Korea: A Geography Based on the Author's Travels and Literature (review)

174BOOK REVIEWS many others were translating analyses of English data into Korean. At points throughout the book, Song takes potshots at strawmen "structuralists" and their analyses, but for me, he is a quintessential structuralist, in the good sense of the word. In the preface, Song cites a "sober remark" by his wife to the effect that few people will ever read this book. This would be unfortunate, indeed, as it has much to offer many. To sum up, it is an extremely valuable collection of wellwritten , well-argued and well-documented papers on some of the most central problems in Korean syntax and semantics, by a Korean linguist who is concerned first and foremost with using linguistics to prove something about Korean, and not vice versa. J. R. P. King School of Oriental and African Studies University of London REFERENCES Horn, Laurence. 1984. "Metalinguistic Negation and Pragmatic Ambiguity." Language 61.1:121-174. I Ki.mun. See Lee, Ki-moon. I Swungnyeng. See Lee, Soong-Nyong. Kim, Alan Hyun-Oak. 1977. "The Role of Word Order in Syntactic Change—SentenceFinal Prominency in Negation in Korean." Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting ofthe Berkeley Linguistics Society. Pp. 670-84. Kim, Wancin. 1970. "Muncepsok uy "wa" wa Kwucepsok uy "wa" [Sentential Conjuntor "wa" and Phrasal Conjunctor "v/a"].Ehak Yenkwu 6.2. King, J. R. P. 1988. "The Korean Dialect Materials in Matveev's 1900 Reference Book to the City of Vladivostok." Language Research 24.2:281-329. Lee, Ki-moon. 1972. Kwuk.esa Kaysel [A Survey of the History of the Korean Language]. Seoul: Minjungseogwan. Lee, Soong-Nyong. 1961 . Cwungsey Kwuk.e Munpep [A Middle Korean Grammar] . Seoul: Eulyu Munhwasa. Martin, S., and Young-Sook C. Lee. 1969. Beginning Korean. New Haven: Yale University Press. Nam, Phunghyen. 1976. "Kwuk.e Pucengpep uy Paltal" [The Development of Negation in Korean] . Munpep Yenkwu 3:55-81. Newmeyer, Frederick. 1986. Linguistic Theory in America. New York: Academic Press. Shibatani, Masayoshi and Taro Kageyama. 1988. "Word Formation in a Modular Theory of Grammar." Language 64.3:451-484. Korea: A Geography Based on the Author's Travels and Literature, by Hermann Lautensach. Translated from the German, Supplemented with a Thoroughly Revised and Expanded Index, and Edited by Katherine and Eckart Dege. Berlin: SpringerVerlag , 1988. xvii + 598 pp. (German edition: Lautensach, H. Korea, eine Landeskunde aufGrund eigener Reisen und der Literatur. Leipzig, K. F. Koehler-Verlag, 1945. 542 Seiten). With 42 photographs, 95 diagrams, 64 tables, and a map. 162DM. BOOK REVIEWS175 Lautensach's Korea has had a curious and unfortunate history. His preface was written in November 1942, and the Foreword by the Dege's is dated April 1988. In all that time few people have seen the first published version: bombing in Germany when the book was finally published in Leipzig in early 1945 restricted the numbers that reached libraries; and many libraries in the U.S. that had copies were persuaded to give them up to intelligence agencies during the Korean War. A much shorter, popular treatment based on this book, under the title Korea: Land, Volk, Schicksal, was published in Stuttgart by K. F. Koehler in 1950. Hermann Lautensach died in 1971, at the age of eighty-five. Prof. Dr. Eckart Dege and Katherine Dege are geographers at the Institute of Geography, University of Kiel. Prof. Dege is the author of several works on Korea, including Entwicklungsdisparitäten der Agrarregionen Südkoreas, reviewed in this journal (Korean Studies 8 (1984): 1 19-120). The book is divided into four major parts, comprising forty-one chapters. These are: Geographical and Historical Background; Nature and Traditional Culture; The Korean Regions; and Korea as a Japanese Foreign Possession. The first three parts are canonical approaches to geographical writing, and the fourth part would now be called The Economic Geography of Korea. Only three of its twelve chapters (eighteen pages) refer to Japan in more than a passing manner. Part III contains detailed and well-written descriptions of the sixteen Korean regions recognized by Lautensach. These are: The North Korean Japan Sea Borderland; The Kaema Upland; The Paektusan Area; The YaIu and the P'yöngbuk Region; The Taedong Basin; The Hwanghae Peninsula; The Kyönggi...