Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Korean Overview
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Phonology: An Overview
- Chapter 3 Overview of Chapters on Syntax
- Chapter 4 On the Centrality of Korean in Language Contacts in Northeast Asia
- Chapter 5 Politeness Strategies in Korean
- Chapter 6 Korean Kugyŏl
- Part II Phonetics and Phonology
- Part III Morphology and Syntax
- Part IV Semantics and Pragmatics
- Part V Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics
- Part VI Language Pedagogy
- Index
- References
Chapter 4 - On the Centrality of Korean in Language Contacts in Northeast Asia
from Part I - Korean Overview
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 September 2022
- The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Korean Overview
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Phonology: An Overview
- Chapter 3 Overview of Chapters on Syntax
- Chapter 4 On the Centrality of Korean in Language Contacts in Northeast Asia
- Chapter 5 Politeness Strategies in Korean
- Chapter 6 Korean Kugyŏl
- Part II Phonetics and Phonology
- Part III Morphology and Syntax
- Part IV Semantics and Pragmatics
- Part V Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics
- Part VI Language Pedagogy
- Index
- References
Summary
Chapter 4 demonstrates that Korean has deeply influenced its immediate language neighbors: Japanese and Jurchen-Manchu. The Japanese-Korean parallels discussed here have often been presented as proof of their genetic relationship. However, the chapter argues that the overwhelming majority of these parallels are found only in Central Japanese, the Japonic language, with which Korean was in immediate and direct contact. On the other hand, most of the Korean-Jurchen/Manchu comparisons dealt with in this chapter have not previously been discussed. With few exceptions, they are found only in Jurchen and Manchu but not in other Tungusic languages. These exceptions are easily explained as loans from Jurchen or Manchu into the neighboring Southern or Northern Tungusic languages; they are never found in those Northern Tungusic languages, such as Ewenki and Ewen that are located outside of the area.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics , pp. 82 - 104Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022