Alexander Vovin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 517814 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alexander Vovin |
| NOMBRES | Alexander |
| APELLIDO | Vovin |
| FIRMA | VOVIN A |
| AFILIACIONES | CRLAO/EHESS Paris France |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Ainu elements in early Japonic
A Cry of a Parrot? Answer to Torquil Duthie
Per aspera ad astra
Farewell to Tsumagari Toshirō
Figure 1Professor Tsumagari Toshirō on April 4, 2017Professor Tsumagari Toshirō on April 4, 2017© Hokkaidō Museum of Northern Peoplesὃς ὃι θεόι φίλουσιν ἀπαθνέσκει νέοςThe one whom the Gods love, dies youngAncient Greek proverb...人まろなくなりにたれどうたのこととどまれるかなAlthough Hitomaro has passed away, his poems remain!Ki-no TsurayukI, Kana preface to the 『古今和歌集』 [A Collection of Old and New Japanese Poems], 921 AD∵On November 7, 2020 Prof. Tsumagari Toshirō 津曲敏…
A Dictionary for Old Uyghur 101
Jens Wilkens. Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen/Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğü. Göttingen: Universitäts Verlag. 2021. IX + 929 pp. ISBN 978-3-86395-481-9.This book, which consist of Danksagung (p. I), Vorbemerkungen (p. II), Hinweise zur Benutzung (pp. III–VI), Abkürzungen (pp. VII–IX), and the main body of the dictionary (pp. 1–929) is very decently priced for a hardcover volume of such a size, and is also available as a free .pdf file (https://www.…
Catching a Black Cat in a Dark Room
Martine Robbeets & Alexander Savelyev (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. lxxxii + [8], 893 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-880462-8 (hardback), 978-0-19-252678-6 (e-book)....Altaic [=Transeurasian] is like catching a black cat in a dark room a priori knowing that it is not there, but screaming all the time: “I got it, I got it!”A variant of a Russian anecdote∵For the first time Martine R…
Ancient Texts and Languages or Natsagdorj with Non-Silk Road Scholars along the Silk Road
Johannes Reckel and Merle Schatz (eds.), Ancient Texts and Languages of Ethnic Groups along the Silk Road. Göttingen: Universitäts Verlag, 2021. 227 pp. ISBN 978-3-86395-489-5.There were two reasons why I obtained this book: first, my everlasting interest in ancient languages and the philology of the Silk Road, and second, my utmost respect for Johannes Reckel as a scholar. His book Nordostasien am Ende der Mongolenherrschaft: Die Jurcen in den G…
Names of Large Exotic Animals and the Urheimat of Japonic
This article argues that three words designating large tropical animals not endemic for Japan: kisa ‘elephant’, tora ‘tiger’, and wani ‘saltwater crocodile’ were borrowed into Japonic from Austroasiatic or Kradai languages. If so, this becomes another important piece of evidence for locating the Urheimat of the Japonic Language family in Southern China and/or Northern South-East Asia driving yet another nail into the coffin of the ‘Altaic’ theory…
Austronesians in the Northern Waters
The following lines are inspired by John Kupchik’s seminal article ‘Austronesian Lights the Way’ that appears in this volume of JEAL . It demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt for the first time that there are reliable Austronesian loanwords in Japonic that reveal quite ancient and profound contacts, because without these profound contacts the borrowing of the names of the most basic celestial bodies, such as the sun and the moon, would not be…
The ‘Pagan’ Oγuz-nāmä
Nevskiy Coming Back to Life Again
A New but Not Exciting Study of Yeniseian Old Turkic Inscriptions
Two Newly Found Xiōng-nú Inscriptions and Their Significance for the Early Linguistic History of Central Asia
The present article deals with two recently excavated Xiōng-nú inscriptions from the Xiōng-nú capital Lóng Chéng in Mongolia. Although these inscriptions are in Chinese, they contain the title of the Xiōng-nú supreme ruler 單于 *darƣ w a, which is attested for the first time outside of Chinese dynastic chronicles. On the basis of this fact, I propose a hypothesis that Xiōng-nú used Chinese characters to transcribe phonographically their own languag…
Old Korean and Proto-Korean *r and *l Revisited
This article argues for new internal evidence for the existence of the contrast between *r and *l in Old Korean and Proto-Korean on the basis of the Hyangchal data and Old Japanese transcriptional glosses as well as Korean loanwords in Manchu and Jurchen that were not analyzed in this way before. Namely, I will argue that combined Old Korean and Middle Korean data call for the reconstruction of two different types of liquids in the position befor…
A Sketch of the Earliest Mongolic Language
The present article deals with the earliest known sources on a Mongolic language discovered in 2014 by the international team Dieter Maue (Germany), Mehmet Ölmez (Turkey), Étienne de La Vaissière and Alexander Vovin (both France) on two inscriptions. The importance of this discovery is three-fold: first, it gives us a glimpse of the earliest Mongolic language, predating by more than six hundred years the hitherto known earliest monument in a Mong…
Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond
The Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond presented in honour of Prof. John B. Whitman includes contributions by a range of mid-generation to senior scholars among his closest colleagues and collaborators representing the front line of contemporary research in the areas of historical and theoretical linguistics of Japanese and Korean as well of Chinese, Turkish, and Russian. Particularly, in all these ar…
Fabrication of Turkic böz ‘fabric’ in Japan and Korea
This paper represents a long-needed criticism of Miller (2005) which carried over the famous discussion of Turkic böz ‘fabric’ in the micro-‘Altaic’ context even further East to Japan and Korea. I demonstrate that Miller’s arguments fail on historical linguistics and philological grounds for all five putative ‘Altaic’ families due in large extent to the faulty nature of either his argumentation or data, or both
Proto-K(r)adai ‘hand’, ‘eye’, and ‘bird’ revisited
This article revisits the traditional comparisons for K(r)adai and Austronesian ‘hand’, ‘eye’, and ‘bird’. In the case of ‘hand’ it attempts to improve the comparison by offering an unorthodox solution for Proto-K(r)adai reconstruction that, in my opinion, should be *lima, virtually identical to proto-Austronesian. It also provides additional evidence for reconstructing ‘eye’ and ‘bird’ as disyllabic words in K(r)adai, showing that these two were…
Some Tofalar etymologies
While Marek Stachowski has cogently demonstrated the presence of loanwords from Turkic and other “Altaic” languages in Yeniseian (1996, 1997), I try to look at language contact in Central Siberia from a different angle. Namely, the present article proposes several Yeniseian etymologies for some words in Tofalar and other Siberian Turkic languages that have been previously considered to be of unknown origin (Rassadin 1971). This is just a prelimin…
Koreanic loanwords in Khitan and their importance in the decipherment of the latter
In this article I am surveying several possible loanwords from Koreanic languages (probably Koguryǒ and/or Bo-hai) into the Khitan language. Apart from explaining the origin of some of the Khitan words that have no Mongolic, other Central Asian, or Chinese etymologies, I will demonstrate that these loanwords can shed light on the decipherment of Khitan characters with unknown readings, and therefore advance the reconstruction and reading of the K…
Man’yōshū (Book 18)
Eskimo Loanwords in Northern Tungusic
This article surveys several Eskimo loanwords in Tungusic. Since they are found exclusively in Northern Tungusic languages, in all probability these loanwords represent a relatively late contact between Northern Tungusic and Eskimo speakers that was likely to take place no earlier than two thousand years ago, when speakers of proto-Northern Tungusic migrated to the North from the Tungusic Urheimat located around the mid-stream of Amur river. This…
From Koguryǒ to T’amna
This article recapitulates some old evidence for the Japonic linguistic substratum in Silla and Paekche in and for the lack of thereof in Koguryǒ. It also introduces some new evidence for the same linguistic distribution. The new evidence for Koguryǒ comes mainly from words recorded in Chinese dynastic histories and from additional Korean loanwords identified in Manchu, the new evidence for Paekche from Liang shu , while the new evidence for Sill…
On one more source of Old Japanese i 2
Japanese rice agriculture terminology and linguistic affiliation of Yayoi culture
Using language to date the origin and spread of food production, Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the second part of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks until recently, although their goals can be ve…
About the phonetic value of the Middle Korean grapheme Δ
The problem concerning the phonetic value of the Middle Korean (MK) Grapheme Δ is one of the most troublesome in the study of Korean historical phonology. There are several hypotheses about the phonetic value of this grapheme, its phonemic status, and origin.The most widespread and more or less generally accepted theory proposes that MK Δ was a voiced fricative [z] which appeared as the result of the lenition of phoneme /s/ in the intervocalic an…
Long vowels in Proto-Japanese
About the phonetic value of the Middle Korean grapheme Δ
The problem concerning the phonetic value of the Middle Korean (MK) Grapheme Δ is one of the most troublesome in the study of Korean historical phonology. There are several hypotheses about the phonetic value of this grapheme, its phonemic status, and origin.The most widespread and more or less generally accepted theory proposes that MK Δ was a voiced fricative [z] which appeared as the result of the lenition of phoneme /s/ in the intervocalic an…
Is Japanese Related to Austronesian?
L'A. examine l'hypothese d'une relation genetique entre le japonais et l'austronesien, en utilisant la methodologie traditionnelle de la linguistique comparative. Il examine ensuite la theorie de l'affiliation genetique du japonais aux langues altaiques et conclut a une fiabilite plus grande pour cette seconde possibilite
Long-Distance Relationships, Reconstruction Methodology, and the Origins of Japanese
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Once Again on the Accusative Marker in Old Korean
Miller (1977) proposed reconstructing the Old Korean accusative marker as hel
Mundajin no noko bunka to shokuji bunka
On the syntactic topology of old Japanese
Nostratic and Altaic
From mass comparison to mess comparison
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A Descriptive Grammar of Early Old Japanese Prose
Japanese, Korean, and Other 'Non-Altaic' Languages
Japanese rice agriculture terminology and linguistic affiliation of Yayoi culture
Using language to date the origin and spread of food production, Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the second part of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks until recently, although their goals can be ve…
On one more source of Old Japanese i 2
From Koguryǒ to T’amna
This article recapitulates some old evidence for the Japonic linguistic substratum in Silla and Paekche in and for the lack of thereof in Koguryǒ. It also introduces some new evidence for the same linguistic distribution. The new evidence for Koguryǒ comes mainly from words recorded in Chinese dynastic histories and from additional Korean loanwords identified in Manchu, the new evidence for Paekche from Liang shu , while the new evidence for Sill…
Eskimo Loanwords in Northern Tungusic
This article surveys several Eskimo loanwords in Tungusic. Since they are found exclusively in Northern Tungusic languages, in all probability these loanwords represent a relatively late contact between Northern Tungusic and Eskimo speakers that was likely to take place no earlier than two thousand years ago, when speakers of proto-Northern Tungusic migrated to the North from the Tungusic Urheimat located around the mid-stream of Amur river. This…
Man’yōshū (Book 18)
Some Tofalar etymologies
While Marek Stachowski has cogently demonstrated the presence of loanwords from Turkic and other “Altaic” languages in Yeniseian (1996, 1997), I try to look at language contact in Central Siberia from a different angle. Namely, the present article proposes several Yeniseian etymologies for some words in Tofalar and other Siberian Turkic languages that have been previously considered to be of unknown origin (Rassadin 1971). This is just a prelimin…
Koreanic loanwords in Khitan and their importance in the decipherment of the latter
In this article I am surveying several possible loanwords from Koreanic languages (probably Koguryǒ and/or Bo-hai) into the Khitan language. Apart from explaining the origin of some of the Khitan words that have no Mongolic, other Central Asian, or Chinese etymologies, I will demonstrate that these loanwords can shed light on the decipherment of Khitan characters with unknown readings, and therefore advance the reconstruction and reading of the K…
Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond
The Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond presented in honour of Prof. John B. Whitman includes contributions by a range of mid-generation to senior scholars among his closest colleagues and collaborators representing the front line of contemporary research in the areas of historical and theoretical linguistics of Japanese and Korean as well of Chinese, Turkish, and Russian. Particularly, in all these ar…
Fabrication of Turkic böz ‘fabric’ in Japan and Korea
This paper represents a long-needed criticism of Miller (2005) which carried over the famous discussion of Turkic böz ‘fabric’ in the micro-‘Altaic’ context even further East to Japan and Korea. I demonstrate that Miller’s arguments fail on historical linguistics and philological grounds for all five putative ‘Altaic’ families due in large extent to the faulty nature of either his argumentation or data, or both
Proto-K(r)adai ‘hand’, ‘eye’, and ‘bird’ revisited
This article revisits the traditional comparisons for K(r)adai and Austronesian ‘hand’, ‘eye’, and ‘bird’. In the case of ‘hand’ it attempts to improve the comparison by offering an unorthodox solution for Proto-K(r)adai reconstruction that, in my opinion, should be *lima, virtually identical to proto-Austronesian. It also provides additional evidence for reconstructing ‘eye’ and ‘bird’ as disyllabic words in K(r)adai, showing that these two were…
A Sketch of the Earliest Mongolic Language
The present article deals with the earliest known sources on a Mongolic language discovered in 2014 by the international team Dieter Maue (Germany), Mehmet Ölmez (Turkey), Étienne de La Vaissière and Alexander Vovin (both France) on two inscriptions. The importance of this discovery is three-fold: first, it gives us a glimpse of the earliest Mongolic language, predating by more than six hundred years the hitherto known earliest monument in a Mong…
The ‘Pagan’ Oγuz-nāmä
Nevskiy Coming Back to Life Again
A New but Not Exciting Study of Yeniseian Old Turkic Inscriptions
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