Marc Hideo Miyake
Encyclopedia
Marc Hideo Miyake is an American linguist
, who specializes in historical linguistics
, particularly the study of Old Japanese
and Tangut
.
, and then studied linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
, from where he obtained his doctorate in 1999, with a dissertation entitled The Phonology of Eighth Century Japanese Revisited: Another Reconstruction Based Upon Written Records. He is best known for his work on the phonetic reconstruction of Old Japanese
, but is also known for his work on the extinct Tangut language
.
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
, who specializes in historical linguistics
Historical linguistics
Historical linguistics is the study of language change. It has five main concerns:* to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages...
, particularly the study of Old Japanese
Old Japanese
is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language.This stage in the development of Japanese is still actively studied and debated, and key Old Japanese texts, such as the Man'yōshū, remain obscure in places.-Dating:...
and Tangut
Tangut language
Tangut is an ancient northeastern Tibeto-Burman language once spoken in the Western Xia Dynasty, also known as the Tangut Empire. It is classified by some linguists as one of the Qiangic languages, which also include Qiang and rGyalrong, among others...
.
Biography
Miyake was born in Aiea, Hawaii in 1971. He studied Japanese language and literature at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, and then studied linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Hawaii at Manoa
The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a public, co-educational university and is the flagship campus of the greater University of Hawaii system...
, from where he obtained his doctorate in 1999, with a dissertation entitled The Phonology of Eighth Century Japanese Revisited: Another Reconstruction Based Upon Written Records. He is best known for his work on the phonetic reconstruction of Old Japanese
Old Japanese
is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language.This stage in the development of Japanese is still actively studied and debated, and key Old Japanese texts, such as the Man'yōshū, remain obscure in places.-Dating:...
, but is also known for his work on the extinct Tangut language
Tangut language
Tangut is an ancient northeastern Tibeto-Burman language once spoken in the Western Xia Dynasty, also known as the Tangut Empire. It is classified by some linguists as one of the Qiangic languages, which also include Qiang and rGyalrong, among others...
.
Works
- 2003. Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415305756
- 2006. "Kanas Korean origins"; in Françoise Bottéro & Redouane Djamouri (eds.), Ecriture chinoise : données, usages et représentations. ISBN 291021608X.