Books: Korean Grammar: Kim, Martin, Shin and Choi (2025)
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enjoyer of Korean historical linguistics https://moonjunmo.link/
The Korean-language translation of my 2019 book Sinography has just been published! This is not an easy book to translate; I'm grateful to the team of scholars, led by Prof. Lee Yong (이용 교수님) who worked on it.
The Korean title is: 동아시아의 한자 −중국 문자의 차용과 변용−
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Table of Old Korean 'tree' words in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事, early 12c.); original transcriptions (using Chinese characters) are given alongside their Early Middle Chinese, reconstructed North Song Chinese, and Sino-Korean readings.
My first paper, "On the origin of Korean namwu 'tree'" [in Korean], was published in Kwukehak 114. In it, I explore historical, dialectal, and toponymic evidence to propose a new proto-form for 'tree', involving partial borrowing from proto-Japonic. Read it below:
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