Marc Hideo Miyake

Marc Hideo Miyake
Born	July 28, 1971(1971-07-28) Aiea, Hawaii
Citizenship	USA
Fields	Linguistics
Alma mater	University of Hawaii at Manoa
Known for	Study of Old Japanese and Tangut language

Marc Hideo Miyake (born 28 July 1971) is an American linguist, who specializes in historical linguistics, particularly the study of Old Japanese and Tangut.

Biography

Miyake was born in Aiea, Hawaii in 1971. He studied Japanese language and literature at University of California, Berkeley, 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.^[1] 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.

Works

• 2003. Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415305756
• 2006. "Kana's Korean origins"; in Françoise Bottéro & Redouane Djamouri (eds.), Ecriture chinoise : données, usages et représentations. ISBN 291021608X.

External links

• Abode of Amritas (Miyake's linguistic blog)

References

1. ^ "UHM Department of Linguistics Alumni". http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/alumni. Retrieved 2010-05-08. 

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Name	Miyake, Marc Hideo
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Date of birth	28 July 1971
Place of birth	Aiea, Hawaii
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