scholarly journals A Brief History of Studies on Chinese Linguistics in Korea:Focusing on Communications Between Chinese Linguistics and Korean Linguistics

2007 ◽  
Vol 53 (null) ◽  
pp. 307-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAEDONLEE
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
Korean Linguistics ◽  
Chinese Linguistics

COULD THERE BE A KOREAN–JAPANESE LINGUISTIC RELATIONSHIP THEORY? SCIENCE, THE DATA, AND THE ALTERNATIVES

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher I. Beckwith
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Genetic Relationship ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Related Language ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Relationship ◽  
The Many ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Korean Linguistics

The ethnolinguistic history of early East Asia depends on the comparative-historical study of the different languages. Scholars have long studied the early interrelationships among the major languages of East Asia, but only rarely according to the theory and methodology of scientific comparative-historical linguistics and linguistic typology, in which theories are expected to conform to the data. Among the many highly contested genetic relationship proposals in the region is the “Korean-Japanese theory”. Despite nearly a century of work by some very prominent scholars, no one has given a convincing demonstration of such a relationship, partly due to the paucity of supporting data, despite the fact that the two languages in question are vibrant and well attested. Now two leading scholars of Japanese and Korean linguistics who are familiar with each other's work, J. M. Unger and A. Vovin, have almost simultaneously published new books on the topic, one in favor of the theory, one against it. The contributions and flaws of the two books, and their position relative to the development of a scientific tradition of comparative-historical linguistics, are discussed. Special attention is paid to Koguryo, the extinct Japanese-related language once spoken on the Korean Peninsula that is crucial to any discussion of the historical relationship of Japanese and Korean.

scholarly journals THE STUDY OF WORD CLASSES IN THE HISTORY OF CHINESE LINGUISTIC TRADITION

2019 ◽  
pp. 228-235
Author(s):  
Jing Bailiang ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Word Class ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
European Language ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Word Classes ◽  
Chinese Linguistics

The concept of the parts of speech in Chinese linguistics is essentially different from understanding parts of speech in Indo-European language studies. Some Chinese and foreign linguists are trying to elaborate a classification for the parts of speech based on corresponding systems of other languages and thus disregarding the relevant properties of Chinese. This article reviews the history of identification of word classes in Chinese linguistic tradition that correlate with the parts of speech in modern Chinese, and presents an attempt to trace the development of the word classes theory in traditional Chinese grammar. Literature analysis on the issue shows that the preliminaries of the theory were formed by Chinese scientists employing philosophic approach that bore a certain amount of subjective attitude and were determined by semantic criterion. As a result, all words were divided into the ones that bear certain meaning and the ones that are deprived of it but are able to change the initial meaning, although word class affiliation was not determined at those times...

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