... University BARUCH BOXER Japan and Korea. An Annotated Bibliography of Doctoral Disseratations in Western Languages, 1877-1969. COMPILED AND EDITED BY FRANK J. SHULMAN. Chicago: American Library Association, 1970. 340 pp., S6.95. (paperback) Doctoral Dissertations on China. A Bibliography of Studies...

...Nicholas Poppe The Turkic Languages and Literatures of Central Asia: A Bibliography. . Comp. Rudolf Loewenthal . 'S-Gravenhage: Mouton , 1957 . 212 . $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 BOOK REVIEWS 491 organization subsequently imposed...

...Paul K. Benedict Abstract French Indochina presents a veritable mosaic of languages, among which are representatives of all the major language families of Southeast Asia. This country has long served as a geographical cul-desac for the continental mass of Asia and thus has received a variety...

...Deepti Misri The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India . By Shefali Chandra . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2012 . 275 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 It will be our...

...Thomas A. Sebeok Abstract The origin of the various languages of Southeastern Asia is veiled by the same mist, broken by only occasional glimmers of light, which hides from the ethnologist and even the historian the steps by which the territory was populated, its culture diffused. Nevertheless...

... of debris. When a modern poet, whether in full awareness or in blissful ignorance of this pile of debris, makes these images come to life, it is an occasion for great rejoicing. The Chinese language has gone through a long process of evolution. With all the effort spent in philological studies...

... OF THE WRITINGS OF SEN KATAYAMA IN WESTERN LANGUAGES HYMAN KUBLIN* Brooklyn College N O STUDY of the history of the Japanese socialist movement may be made without reference to the work and thought of Sen Katayama (1859-1933). Pioneer socialist, publisher of the first successful Japanese labor newspaper...

...Bimla Prasad Government and Politics of India and Pakistan 1885–1955: A Bibliography of Works in Western Languages . Compiled and edited by Patrick Wilson. Modern India Project, Bibliographical Study No. 2. Berkeley : South Asia Studies, Institute of East Asiatic Studies, University...

...), as it is about Persian, Rekhta, and English, given the multilingual vocabularies of texts and contexts and an ever multilingual society out of which lexicographical works emerged. (The first mono lingual dictionary of Urdu is dated to the year 1849.) Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition...

... and Eurasians who were writing in Malay at the time—developed a literary language from Low Malay that was primarily an oral language with many regional and social variants. Soon after this period, the Dutch (and many Eurasians and some Chinese) abandoned Malay as a literary language in preference for Dutch...

... Japan and Korea: An Annotated Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations in Western Languages, 1877–1969 . Compiled by Frank J. Shulman . Chicago : American Library Association , 1970 . xix, 2562 pp. Addenda, Bibliography of Published References, Author Index, Institutional Index...

...A. B. Hudson Austronesian Studies: Papers from the Second Eastern Conference on Austronesian Languages . Edited by Paz Buenaventura Naylor . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan (Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, No. 15), 1979 . xi, 214 pp. Appendix. N.p. Copyright ©...

...Tim Dobe Moral Languages from Colonial Punjab: The Singh Sabha, Arya Samaj and Ahmadiyahs . By Bob van der Linden . Delhi : Manohar . 267 pp. $42.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Bob van der Linden's Moral Languages from Colonial...

...John Whitman The Role of Contact in the Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages . By J. Marshall Unger . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2009 . xiii , 207 pp. $48.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 J. Marshall Unger...

...Alan M. Stevens A Bibliography of Philippine Linguistics and Minor Languages: With Annotations and Indices Based on Works in the Library of Cornell University . By Jack H Ward . Linguistics Series V, Data Paper: Number 83. Ithaca : Southeast Asia Program, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell...

...Henry M. Hoenigswald Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages . By R. L. Turner . London : Oxford University Press , 1966 . xx, 841 pp. Corrigenda. $48.00. BOOK REVIEWS 747 1550. The author shows how...

...Charles O. Frake Philippine Minor Languages: Word Lists and Phonolopies . Edited by Lawrence A. Reid . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1971 , xii, 239 pp. Notes, References, $3.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 750 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Charles F. Carlson Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages . By Roy Andrew Miller . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1971 . 292 pp. $17.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 673 cially where the Chinese cultural values can...

... , “ Adjectives in Thai: Implications for a functionalist typology of word classes ,” Linguistic Typology 12 ( 2008 ): 339 – 381 . In summary, the book presents a representative array of the current language and linguistic research in the Himalayas, spanning topics as diverse as prehistory...

...Jerome L. Packard The Languages of China . By S. Robert Ramsey . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1987 . xiv, 340 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 6 1 3 More interesting is Perdue's observation...