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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alexander Vovin has published some hundred articles on Japanese, Korean, Ainu, and Tungusic, as well as on other languages of East and Inner Asia. Among his major works are A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu (1993); A Reference Grammar of Classical Japanese Prose (2003); Nihongo Keit ron no Genzai/Perspectives on the Origins of the Japanese Language, a bilingual Japanese-English volume co-edited with Osada Toshiki (2003); The Critical Edition and the Translation of the Man’ysh, Book 15 (2009), other books to follow; and A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese, Part 1(2005) and Part 2 (2009). [18.222.67.251] Project MUSE (2024-04-24 11:40 GMT) The Role of Contact in the Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages J. Marshall Unger 2008, 224 pages cloth: ISBN 978-0-8248-3279-7 Despite decades of research on the reconstruction of proto-KoreanJapanese (pKJ), some scholars still reject a genetic relationship. This study addresses their doubts in a new way, interpreting comparative linguistic data within a context of material and cultural evidence, much of which has come to light only in recent years. Questioning Minds Short Stories by Modern Korean Women Writers Yung-Hee Kim 2010, 248 pages, illus. cloth: ISBN 978-0-8248-3395-4 paper: ISBN 978-0-8248-3409-8 Available for the first time in English, the ten short stories by modern Korean women collected here touch in one way or another on issues related to gender and kinship politics. All of the protagonists are women who face personal crises or defining moments in their lives as gender-marked beings in a Confucian, patriarchal Korean society. ISBN 978-0-8248-3278-0 9 780824 832780 9 0 0 0 0 www.uhpress.hawaii.edu UNIVERSITY of HAWAI‘I PRESS HONOLULU, HAWAI‘I 96822-1888 L A N G U A G E A N D L I N G U I S T I C S Of related interest jacket art: (left) Lanterns at the back of Nigatsudō Temple, Nara, Japan; (right) a Paekche royal tomb, Gongju, Korea. (Photos by author) jacket design: Julie Matsuo-Chun Also in Hawai‘i Studies on Korea ...

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