Shichirō Murayama

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Shichirō Murayama (村山七郎 Murayama Shichirō?) was born in Ibaraki Prefecture in 1908 and died in 1995. He was a Japanese linguist who started his career lecturing at Juntendō University, and went on to become full professor at Kyōto Sangyō Daigaku. One of the world’s foremost authorities on the Altaic languages[1], he later made important contributions to the mixed-language theory of the origins of Japanese. Denis Sinor regarded him, together with Hattori Shirō, Samuel E. Martin, and Osada Natsuki as one of the four scholars who have done most to throw light on the origins of the Japanese language.[2]）

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[edit] Career

Murayama spent the much of the Second World War from 1942 to 1945 in Germany, completing post-graduate studies at Berlin University on Comparative linguistics and Altai languages under the supervision of Nikolaus Poppe with particular attention to written materials in the Mongolian language.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Roy Andrew Miller, Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages, University of Chicago Press, 1971 p. 20
  2. ^ Alexander Vovin, Osada Toshiki (長田俊樹) (eds.) Nihongo keitōron no genzai, Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyū Sentā, 2003

[edit] Publications

  • with Ōbayashi Taryō, Nihongo no kigen, Kōbundō, Tokyo 1973
  • Nihongo no kenkyū-hōhō, Kōbundō, Tokyo 1974
  • Nihongo no gogen, Kōbundō, Tokyo 1974
  • Nihongo no genkai, Kōbundō, Tokyo 1975
  • Nihongo keitō no tankyū, Taishūkan Shoten, Tokyo 1978
  • Nihongo no tanjō, Chikuma Shobō, Tokyo 1979
  • with Kokubu Naoichi,Genshi nihongo to minzoku bunka, San'ichi Shobō,1979
  • Ryūkyūgo no himitsu, Kōbundō, Tokyo 1981
  • Nihongo no kigen to gogen, San'ichi Shobō, Tokyo 1981
  • Nihongo Tamirugo kigensetsu hihan, San'ichi Shobō, Tokyo 1982
  • Ainugo no kigen, San'ichi Shobō, Tokyo 1992

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