Fabrication of Turkic böz ‘fabric’ in Japan and Korea
Fabrication of Turkic böz ‘fabric’ in Japan and Korea
Author(s): Alexander VovinSubject(s): Language studies
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: ‘Altaic’; Turkic; Mongolic; Tungusic; Korean; Japanese; böz ‘fabric’; different fabric names; historical linguistics; philology; comparative method
Summary/Abstract: This paper represents a long-needed criticism of Miller (2005) which carried over the famous discussion of Turkic böz ‘fabric’ in the micro-‘Altaic’ context even further East to Japan and Korea. I demonstrate that Miller’s arguments fail on historical linguistics and philological grounds for all five putative ‘Altaic’ families due in large extent to the faulty nature of either his argumentation or data, or both.
Journal: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 71/2018
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 263-284
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English
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