My Publications |
Gradually "reviewing" them, briefly |
Articles |
Many of my papers contain (at least) one major booboo. |
"Some comments on the study of ancient kana spelling," Phi Theta Papers, Vol ?, 1961, pp. ? |
Among other things, I suggested reasons for a so-far unfavored reconstruction of Old Japanese, but when I presented my version
of a reconstruction, somehow I forgot that there is no ??? |
"The derivation of certain Japanese nouns," Phi Theta Papers, Vol 8, Fall 1963, pp. 51-58 |
I attempt to present evidence by weight of 40 examples that many Japanese nouns derived from verbs by the attachment of a suffix
"-a" to the verb root. One of my examples was "kura" = "store house," which I supposed derived from "kur-" = "to dig" and had a
semantic history similar to that of Eng. "go-down," imagining the latter to be some kind of basement type storage place and that
the Japanese version dated back to the pit dwellings. I never thought to check "go-down" in a dictionary and find out that there
was no implication of digging in this word borrowed from ?Malaysian? ?"gudang"?. |
"Toward the semantics of -te-i- attachment," JATJ, Vol ? No ?, ?, pp. 51-7. |
"On the modification of certain reconstructions of Proto-Korean-Japanese," Papers in Japanese Linguistics, Vol 2 No 1, Summer 1973, pp. 31-47. |
"Some problems with word meaning," Papers in Japanese Linguistics, Vol 2 No 1, Summer 1973, pp. 174-176. |
"Another look at NP-no in relative clauses," JATJ, Vol VIII No 2,3, July 1973. |
"'Subject' and 'topic' in Korean, Japanese, and English," Korean Linguistics: Journal of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics, Vol. 1, 1978, pp. 128-45. |
Reviews |
The structure of the Japanese language, Susumu Kuno, Cambridge, Mass. and London, MIT Press, 1973. In Language Sciences, October 1974, pp. 19-24. |
"Martin on Japanese." Review of A reference grammar of Japanese by Samuel E. Martin, Yale University Press, 1975. In Monumenta Nipponica, XXXII, 3, pp. 377-87. |
A Grammar of Classical Japanese. By Akira Komai. Culver Publishing, Chicago, 1979. In Monumenta Nipponica, XXXIV, 4, pp.501-4. |
Post-structural approaches to language: language theory in a Japanese context. By J. V. Neustupný. Tokyo
University Press, Tokyo, 1978. In Journal of Linguistics, ?, ?, pp. 326-8. |
Kodansha's compact kanji guide: a new character dictionary for students and professionsals, Tokyo, New York, London:
Kodansha International, 1991, (with Timothy Vance) In Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 26:1 (1992), 47-50 |
Andrew Dykstra, Kanji ichi ni, ..., In Modern Language Journal 77:2 (1993), 259-60. |
Samuel E. Martin, Martin's concise Japanese dictionary, (with Timothy Vance). In Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 28:2 (1994), 216-223. |