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Name:	Alexander  Vovin
Institution:	University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
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Homepage:	http://www2.hawaii.edu/eall/jpn_facbio.html#VovinAlexander
State and/or Country:	HI USA
Linguistic Field(s):	Historical Linguistics
Specialty:	typology
Subject Language(s):	Ainu Japanese Manchu Japanese, Old
Language Family(ies):	Japonic
Selected Publications:	Articles 'Some data on the Soviet Korean Language.' Ehak yenkwu (Language Research), Volume 25, Number 2, June 1989. pp. 277-293. (Seoul, South Korea) 'The Origins of the Ainu Language'. In: Pan-Asiatic Linguistics. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Language and Linguistics, Vol. 2, pp.672-685. January 8-10, 1992. Bangkok. 'Long vowels in Proto-Japanese'. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 2, 1993, pp.125-134. 'About the Phonetic Value of the Middle Korean Grapheme ∆'. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, vol. LVI, Part 2, 1993, pp. 247-259.
Courses Taught:	Languages: Japanese (all levels), Old Japanese (both Western and Eastern), Classical Japanese, Korean (101-102), Middle Korean, Classical Mongolian, Manchu, Classical Chinese, Old Turkic Linguistics: Various courses on historical East Asian and Central Asian linguistics, typology, language and culture, etc.
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