Samuel Martin (linguist)

Samuel Elmo Martin (born 1924) is a former professor of Far Eastern Languages at Yale University and the author of many works on the Korean and Japanese languages.

Martin developed the Yale romanization system for transliterating Korean, which is extensively used by linguists.

Martin's monumental "Reference Grammar of Japanese" (1975) is a landmark in the study of the grammar and history of the Japanese language, as is his "Japanese Language through Time" (1987).

His "Reference Grammar of Korean" (1993) is a detailed description of 20th century Korean and also shows the Middle Korean origin of morphemes, making it a valuable tool for English-speaking scholars interested in either modern or Middle Korean.

Martin considers Japanese and Korean to be genealogically related (1991).

Works by Samuel E. Martin

* 1951. "Korean in a Hurry: A Quick Approach to Spoken Korean". Tuttle Publishing, Japan. (First US edition: 1954.) ISBN 0804803498.

* 1966. "Lexical evidence relating Korean to Japanese." "Language" 12.2, 185-251.

* 1975. "A Reference Grammar of Japanese." New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300018134.

* 1975. With Yang Ha Lee and Sung-Un Chang. "A Korean-English Dictionary." New Haven: Yale University Press.

* 1975. "Problems in establishing the prehistoric relationships of Korean and Japanese." In "Proceedings International Symposium Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Korean Liberation." Seoul: National Academy of Sciences.

* 1982. "On the consonant distinctions of earlier Korean." "Hangul" 175:59-172.

* 1987. "The Japanese Language through Time." New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300037295.

* 1990. "Morphological clues to the relationships of Japanese and Korean." In Philip Baldi, ed., "Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology." Berlin: de Gruyter.

* 1990. "On dating changes in the phonetic rules of Korean." "Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung" 14:185-216.

* 1991. "Recent research on the relationships of Japanese and Korean." In Sydney M. Lamb and E. Douglas Mitchell, eds., "Sprung from Some Common Source: Investigations into the Prehistory of Languages." Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

* 1992. "Essential Japanese: An Introduction to the Standard Colloquial Language", third revised edition. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 0804818622.

* 1993. "A Reference Grammar of Korean: A Complete Guide to the Grammar and History of the Korean Language." Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle. ISBN 0804818878. (2006 reprint: ISBN 0804837716.)

* 1995. "On the prehistory of Korean grammar: verb forms." "Korean Studies" 19:139-150.

* 1996. "Consonant Lenition in Korean and the Macro-Altaic Question." Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0824818091.

* 1996. "The Middle Korean marker of politeness "-ngi"." In Shim Chaegi et al., eds., "Yi Kimun kyosu chongnyon toeim kinyom nonch'ong". Seoul: Shingu munhwasa.

* 1997. "How did Korean get "-l" for Middle Chinese words ending in "-t"?" "Journal of East Asian Linguistics" 6.3: 263-271.

* 1997. "Un-Altaic features of the Korean verb." In Ho-min Sohn and John Haig, eds., "Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 6." Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Languages and Information, Stanford University.

* 2000. "How have Korean vowels changed through time?" "Korean Linguistics" 10:1-59.

* 2002. "Coming and going: deictic verbs in Korean and Japanese." In Sang-Oak Lee and Gregory K. Iverson, with Sang-Cheol Ahn and Young-mee Yu Cho, eds., "Pathways into Korean Language and Culture: Essays in Honor of Young-Key Kim-Renaud". Seoul: Pagijong Press.