Marc Miyake Explained

Marc Hideo Miyake
Birth Date:	28 July 1971
Birth Place:	Aiea, Hawaii, U.S.
Discipline:	Linguist
Thesis Title:	The Phonology of Eighth-Century Japanese Revisited: Another Reconstruction Based upon Written Records
Thesis Year:	1999
Doctoral Advisor:	Alexander Vovin

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, and attended Punahou School in Honolulu, graduating in 1989. 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] [2]} 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.

Between 2015 and 2019 Miyake was a research assistant at the British Museum, working on the decipherment of Pyu inscriptions.^[3] At the same time he was also a research associate in the Department of Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies.^[4]

Works

• Miyake, Marc Hideo (2003). Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon. .
• Miyake . Marc Hideo . 2003 . Philological evidence for *e and *o in Pre-Old Japanese . Diachronica . 20 . 1 . 83–137 . 10.1075/dia.20.1.06miy .
• Miyake, Marc Hideo (2006). "Kana’s Korean origins". In Françoise Bottéro & Redouane Djamouri (eds.), Ecriture chinoise: données, usages et représentations, pp. 185 - 205. Paris: CRLAO. .
• Miyake, Marc Hideo (2012). "Complexity from Compression: a Sketch of Pre-Tangut". In Irina Fedorovna Popova (ed.), Тангуты в Центральной Азии: сборник статей в честь 80-летия проф. Е.И.Кычанова [Tanguts in Central Asia: a collection of articles marking the 80th anniversary of Prof. [[Yevgeny Kychanov|E. I. Kychanov]]], pp. 244 - 261. Moscow: Oriental Literature. .
• Miyake, Marc (2017). “Loanwords, Pre-Qín”, in: Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Vol 2, Rint Sybesma et al., eds., pp. 650-653. Leiden: Brill.
• Miyake, Marc (2017). “Loanwords, Post-Qín, Premodern”, in: Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics, Vol 2, Rint Sybesma et al., eds., pp. 647-650. Leiden: Brill.
• Studies in Pyu Epigraphy, I: State of the Field, Edition and Analysis of the Kan Wet Khaung Mound Inscription, and Inventory of the Corpus . Arlo . Griffiths . Bob . Hudson . Marc . Miyake . Marc Miyake . Julian K. . Wheatley . Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient . 2017 . 103 . 43–205 . 10.3406/befeo.2017.6247 .
• Studies in Pyu Phonology, ii: Rhymes . Marc . Miyake . Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics . 2018 . 11 . 1–2 . 37–76 . 10.1163/2405478X-01101008 . free .
• A first look at Pyu grammar . Marc . Miyake . Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area . 2019 . 42 . 2 . 150–221 . 10.1075/ltba.18013.miy . 213553247 .

External links

• Abode of Amritas (Miyake's linguistics blog)
• Miyake's page at Academia.edu
  • Miyake's presentation on the A/B distinction in Old Chinese (SOAS, November 2015)
• Miyake's presentation on data management for the decipherment of the Pyu language (SOAS, November 2017)
• Miyake's phonetic database for Tangut (explanation of system of transcription) (version 4.0)

Notes and References

1. Web site: UHM Department of Linguistics Alumni . 2010-05-08 .
2. https://www.jstor.org/stable/330569 "Doctoral Degrees Granted in Foreign Languages in the United States: 1999"
3. Web site: Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State . . July 24, 2015 .
4. Web site: Marc Miyake . . 2017-12-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171207085534/https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff104446.php . 2017-12-07 . dead .