Studies In The Historical Phonology Of Asian Languages Historical Phonology Of Asian Languages

This volume owes its genesis to a series of lectures on various aspects of the historical phonology of Asian languages, sponsored by the Asian Linguistics Colloquium of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature of the University of Washington, in Seattle. The volume includes papers on both theoretical and applied aspects of Asian linguistics, and topics examined include vowel harmony, dialect variation and “inherent variability”, historical reconstruction based on written records, historical reconstruction based on the comparative method, accentology, and language standardization. While some of the papers are comparative in nature, others deal with effects of language contact on phonological systems. Languages and language families dealt with are Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Altaic, Chinese, Uralic, Korean, and Tai. 1. Preface and acknowledgements 2. Zhou and Han phonology in the Shijing (by Baxter, William H.) 3. Vowel harmony loss in Uralic and Altaic (by Binnick, Robert I.) 4. The Old Chinese Terrestrial Rames in Saek (by Boltz, William G.) 5. Diachronic Aspects of Regular Disharmony in Modern Uyghur (by Hahn, Reinhard F.) 6. Vlax Phonological Divergence From Common Romani: Implications for Standardization and Orthography (by Hancock, Ian F.) 7. Dialects, Diglossia, and Diachronic Phonology in Early Indo-Aryan (by Hock, Hans Henrich) 8. The Emergence of the Syllable Types of Stems (C)VCC(V) and (C)VC(V) in Indo-Aryan and Dravidian: Conspiracy or Convergence? (by Krishnamurti, Bh.) 9. How Many Verner's Laws Does an Altaicist Need? (by Miller, Roy Andrew) 10. Nasals in Old Southern Chinese (by Norman, Jerry) 11. Proto-Korean and the Origin of Korean Accent (by Ramsey, S. Robert) 12. Index of Languages 13. Index of Names