Korean History: A Bibliography
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Linguistics: Writing Systems

Ahn, Pyong-hi. "On Kyunyo's Books in Korean." Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung 14 (1990): 25-32.

Ahn, Pyong-hi. "The Principles Underlying the Invention of the Korean Alphabet." In Young-Key Kim-Renaud, ed. The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.

Baek, Eung-jin. "On the Transcription of Sino-Korean in the Dong-gug Jeong-un." Ono 3:2 (1978:12): 59-69.

Bentley, John R. "The Origin of Man'yogana." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 64:1 (2001): 59-73.

Buzo, Adrian. "Early Korean Writing Systems." Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 55 (1980): 35-62.

Buzo, Adrian. "An Introduction to Early Korean Writing Systems." Korea Journal 22:1 (January 1982): 11-13.

Buzo, Adrian. "An Introduction to Early Korean Writing Systems." In The Korean Language. Seoul: The Si-sa-yong-o-sa Publishers, Inc., 1983.

Cho, Seung-Bog. "On Idu." Rocznik Orientalistyczny 46:2 (1990): 23-32. [Also included in Seung-bog Cho. Language and Society in East Asia: Selected Articles edited by Bert Edstrom. Stockholm: Center for Pacific Asia Studies, Stockholm University, 1991.]

Cho, Young-mee Yu. “Diglossia in Korean Language and Literature: A Historical Perspective.” East Asia: An International Quarterly 20:1 (Spring 2002): 3-23.

Chung, Jae-young. "Sokdokkugyol in the Koryo Period." Seoul Journal of Korean Studies 12 (1999): 29-45.

Chung, Kwang. "The Hunmin Chongum and the Cause of King Sejong's Language Policy." (Toksong yoja taehak) Toksong yodae nonmunjip 10 (1981): 127-147.

Coblin, W. South. “'Phags-pa Chinese and the Standard Reading Pronunciation of Early Ming: A Comparative Study.” Language and Linguistics 2:2 (July 2001): 1-62.

Daniels, Peter T. “On Writing Syllables: Three Episodes of Script Transfer.” Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 30:1 (Spring 2000): 73-86.

Haarmann, Harald. "The Emergence of the Korean Script as a Symbol of Korean Identity." In Joshua A. Fishman, ed. The Earliest Stage of Language Planning: The 'First Congress' Phenomenon. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.

Han, Eunjoo. “Prosodic Structure of Sino-Korean Words.” Ohak yongu 37:3 (2001:9): 629-653.

"Hangul (Korean Alphabet)." Asian Culture Quarterly 3:1 (Spring 1975): 65-77.

Horigan, Damien P. "Hangul and Hanja: A Brief History of the Korean Writing System." Asian Culture Quarterly 20:1 (Spring 1992): 8-14.

Huh, Ung. "The Phonological System of the 15th Century Korean." In Shin Sang-Soon, Lee Don-Ju, and Lee Hwan-Mook, eds. Understanding Hunmin-jong.um. Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Company, 1990.

Kang, Man-gil. "The Historical Significance of the Invention of Han'gul." Korea Journal 17:10 (October 1977): 47-54.

Kang, Sinhang. "The Vowel System of the Korean Alphabet and Korean Readings of Chinese Characters." In Young-Key Kim-Renaud, ed. The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.

Kim, Chagyun. "The Tone System of Hunmin-jong.um." In Shin Sang-Soon, Lee Don-Ju, and Lee Hwan-Mook, eds. Understanding Hunmin-jong.um. Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Company, 1990.

Kim, Chin-W. "On the Origin and Structure of the Korean Script." In Chin-W. Kim. Sojourns in Language: Collected Papers of Chin-W. Kim, II. Seoul: Tower Press, Ltd., 1988.

Kim, Hyong-gyu. "Chinese Characters and the Korean Language." In The Korean Language. Seoul: The Si-sa-yong-o-sa Publishers, Inc., 1983.

Kim, Jin-pyong. "The Letterforms of Han'gul: Its Origins and Process of Transformation." Korea Journal 23:6 (June 1983): 9-22.

Kim, Jin-pyong. "The Letterforms of Han'gul." In The Korean Language. Seoul: The Si-sa-yong-o-sa Publishers, Inc., 1983.

Kim, Sun Jai. "Linguistic Creativity in National Script Formation of Korea." Kyonghui taehakkyo nonmunjip 8 (1974): 51-69.

Kim, Young-song. "Articulatory Characteristics and the Vowel System in Hun-min Jeong-um." Korea Journal 27:2 (February 1987): 18-29.

Kim, Young-song. "The Vowel System of Hunmin-jong.um." In Shin Sang-Soon, Lee Don-Ju, and Lee Hwan-Mook, eds. Understanding Hunmin-jong.um. Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Company, 1990.

Kim, Yun-gyong. "Chu Si-kyong and Modernization of Han'gul." In The Korean Language. Seoul: The Si-sa-yong-o-sa Publishers, Inc., 1983.

Kim-Renaud, Young-Key, ed. The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.

Kim-Renaud, Young-Key. "Introduction." In Young-Key Kim-Renaud, ed. The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.

Kim-Renaud, Young-Key. “Sejong’s Theory of Literacy and Writing.” Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 30:1 (Spring 2000): 13-46.

Kim, Wan-jin. “Hyangga and Fact Finding.” In The Linguistic Society of Korea, ed. Linguistics in the Morning Calm 4. Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Co., 1999.

Kim, Yongduk. “On I-du: Writing the Korean Language in Chinese Characters.” Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 74 (1999): 49-57.

Kim-Cho, Sek Yen. The Korean Alphabet of 1446: Expositions, Orthophonic Alphabet, Visible Speech Sounds, Translation with Annotation, Future Applicability. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002.

King, Ross. "Experimentaton with Han'gul in Russia and the USSR, 1914-1937." In Young-Key Kim-Renaud, ed. The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.

King, Ross. "Nationalism and Language Reform in Korea: The Questione della Lingua in Precolonial Korea." In Hyung Il Pai and Timothy R. Tangherlini, eds. Nationalism and the Construction of Korean Identity. Berkeley: Center for Korean Studies, Institute of East Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1998

Kong, Yong-Il. "The Korean Writing System: A Linguistic Examination." (Kyonghui taehakkyo ono kyoyuk yonguso) Ono yongu 4:4 (1983:12): 78-88.

Koncevich, L.R. “Some Problems Raised by the Study of ‘Hunmin Chong’um.’” Cahiers d’Etudes Coreennes 7 (2000): 147-166.

Kono, Rokuro. "The Chinese Writing and Its Influences on the Scripts of the Neighboring Peoples: With Special Reference to Korea and Japan." Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko 27 (1969): 83-140.

Kono, Rokuro. "The Chinese Writing and Its Influences on the Scripts of the Neighboring Peoples: With Special Reference to Korea and Japan." In Kono Rokuro chosakushu 3. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1980.

Kontsevich, L.R. "The First Monument of Korean Writing." In Asia in Soviet Studies. Moscow: Nauka Publishing House, 1969.

Ledyard, Gari. "The International Linguistic Background of the Correct Sounds for the Instruction of the People." In Young-Key Kim-Renaud, ed. The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.

Ledyard, Gari K. The Korean Language Reform of 1446. Seoul: Shingu munhwasa, 1998.

Lee, Don-Ju. "An Explanation on Hunmin-jong.um." In Shin Sang-Soon, Lee Don-Ju, and Lee Hwan-Mook, eds. Understanding Hunmin-jong.um. Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Company, 1990.

Lee, Don-Ju. "The Chinese Phonological Background of Hunmin-jong.um." In Shin Sang-Soon, Lee Don-Ju, and Lee Hwan-Mook, eds. Understanding Hunmin-jong.um. Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Company, 1990.

Lee, Haewoo. "The Origins of Sino-Korean." Korean Linguistics 8 (1994): 207-222.

Lee, Hwan-Mook. "The Letter Formation Principles of Hunmin-jong.um." In Shin Sang-Soon, Lee Don-Ju, and Lee Hwan-Mook, eds. Understanding Hunmin-jong.um. Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Company, 1990.

Lee, Ki-moon. "Language and Writing Systems in Traditional Korea." In Peter H. Lee, ed. The Traditional Culture and Society of Korea: Art and Literature. Honolulu: The Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii, 1975.

Lee, Ki-moon. "Some Problems Related to the Invention of Humminjongum." Korea Journal 18:2 (February 1978): 30-41.

Lee, Ki-moon. "A Look at Research in Korean Historical Linguistics." Korea Journal 19:2 (February 1979): 4-10.

Lee, Ki-moon. "Foundations of Hunmin Chongum." Korea Journal 23:6 (June 1983): 4-8.

Lee, Ki-Moon. "The Inventor of the Korean Alphabet." In Young-Key Kim-Renaud, ed. The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.

Lee, Ki-moon. "Foundations of Hunmin Chongum." In The Korean Language. Seoul: The Si-sa-yong-o-sa Publishers, Inc., 1983.

Lee, Pyonggeun. "The System of Syllable Initial and Final Sounds in Hunmin-jong.um." In Shin Sang-Soon, Lee Don-Ju, and Lee Hwan-Mook, eds. Understanding Hunmin-jong.um. Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Company, 1990.

Lee, Sang-Oak. "Graphical Ingenuity in the Korean Writing System: With New Reference to Calligraphy." In Young-Key Kim-Renaud, ed. The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.

Lee, Sung-nyong. "A Study of Korean Script." In International Association of Historians of Asia, ed. Proceedings of the First International Conference of Historians of Asia. Manila: International Association of Historians of Asia, 1960.

Lee, Sung-nyong. "Hancha and Linguistic Policy." Korea Journal 13:4 (April 1973): 32-40.

Martin, Samuel E. "Commentary." In Young-Key Kim-Renaud, ed. The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.

Miller, Roy Andrew. "Chinese Script in Korea and Japan." Asian and Pacific Quarterly of Cultural and Social Affairs 19:2 (Winter 1987): 1-18.

Minn, Kwansik. "Deconstructing Hunmin Chongum." In Ho-min Sohn, ed. Korean Language in America 1: Papers from the First National Conference on Korean Language Education. Honolulu: The American Association of Teachers of Korean, 1995.

Nam, Kwang-Woo. "On the Arrangement of the Korean Alphabet." Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 28 (June 1968): 104-110.

Tranter, Nicolas. “Script ‘Borrowing’: Cultural Influence and the Development of the Written Vernacular in East Asia.” In T.E. McAuley, ed. Language Change in East Asia. Richmond, Surrey, Eng.: Curzon Press, 2001.

Tranter, Nicolas. “The ‘Ideal Square’ of Logographic Scripts and the Structural Similarities of Khitan Script and Han’gul.” 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, 2002.

Park, Jihong. "A Study on the 'Explanations on Forming Letters' in Hunmin-jong.um Haerye: About the Background of the Science of Divination." In Shin Sang-Soon, Lee Don-Ju, and Lee Hwan-Mook, eds. Understanding Hunmin-jong.um. Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Company, 1990.

Pihl, Marshall R. "The Alphabet of East Asia." Korea Journal 5:3 (March 1965): 12-16.

Pihl, Marshall R. "The Alphabet of East Asia." In The Korean Language. Seoul: The Si-sa-yong-o-sa Publishers, Inc., 1983.

Ramsey, S. Robert. "The Korean Alphabet." In Young-Key Kim Renaud, ed. King Sejong the Great: The Light of 15th Century Korea. Washington, D.C.: International Circle of Korean Linguistics, 1992.

Ramsey, S. Robert. "The Invention of the Alphabet and the History of the Korean Language." In Young-Key Kim-Renaud, ed. The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997.

Ramsey, S. Robert. "The Korean Alphabet." In Kim Yonggi, ed. Sejong taewang: 15 segi Hanguk ui pich. Seoul: Shingu munhwasa, 1998.

Ronnenkamp-Holst, Tedda. "Socio-cultural Aspects of the History of the Korean Script." In Simon B. Heilesen, ed. Symposium on Korea. Copenhagen: East Asian Institute, University of Copenhagen, 1988.

Ronnenkamp-Holst, Tedda. "Socio-cultural Aspects of the History of the Korean Script." East Asian Institute Occasional Papers 1 (1988): 15-23.

Sasse, Werner. "'Byo' (rice kernel) and the Question of [ho] in Old Korean Writing." Kugohak 10 (1981): 127-134.

Sasse, Werner. "[ho] as a Phonogram in Early Korean Writing." In The Linguistic Society of Korea, ed. Linguistics in the Land of the Morning Calm: Selected Papers from SICOL-1981. Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Company, 1982.

Searle, Steven Joseph. "A Study of Korea's National Script Research Institute (1907-1909)." Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 56 (December 1982): 95-124.

Shagdarsuren, Ts. "Correlation between Korean and Mongolian Scripts." Monggolhak 4 (1996): XXX-XXX.

Shaqdarsurung, Tseveliin. “A Study of the Relationship between the Korean and the Mongolian Scripts.” Mongolian Studies 25 (2002): 59-84.

Shim, Jae-Kee. "Formation of Korean Alphabet." Ohak yongu 23:3 (1987:9): 527-537.

Shin, Sang-Soon, Lee Don-Ju, and Lee Hwan-Mook, eds. Understanding Hunmin-jong.um. Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Company, 1990.

Song, Ki Joong. "The Writing Systems of Northeast Asia and The Origin of the Korean Alphabet, Han'gul." Seoul Journal of Korean Studies 11 (1998): 3-50.

Vovin, Alexander. "About the Phonetic Value of the Middle Korean Grapheme [triangle]." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 56:2 (1993): 247-259.

Yu, Eui-Young. “The Role of Catholic and Protestant Churches in the Adoption of Han’gul as National Language.” In Chang Yun-Shik, Donald L. Baker, Hur Nam-lin, and Ross King, eds. Korea Between Tradition and Modernity: Selected Papers from the Fourth Pacific and Asian Conference on Korean Studies. Vancouver: Institute for Asian Research, University of British Columbia, 2000.

 

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