Table of Contents

1. Introduction 15 Editor 2.Proto-Japanese-Korean 25 John Whitman (Cornell University) 3. Old Korean 10 Response awaited 4. Middle Korean 40 S. Robert Ramsey (subject to timetable) (University of Maryland) 5. Modern Korean 40 Young-key Kim-Renaud (subject to timetable) (George Washington University) 6. Korean dialects 20 Ross King (University of British Columbia) 7. Old Japanese 30 Nicolas Tranter (University of Sheffield) 8. Early Middle and Classical Japanese 40 Thomas E. McAuley (University of Sheffield) 9. Late Middle Japanese 30 Bjarke Frellesvig (Oxford University) 10. Modern Japanese 40 Response awaited 11. Japanese dialects 20 Akiko Matsumori (Japan Women’s University) and Takuichiro Ohnishi (National Japanese Language Research Institute) 12. Northern Ryukyuan 35 Leon Serafim (University of Hawai‘i) 13. Southern Ryukyuan 35 Wayne Lawrence (University of Auckland) 14. Yonaguni 35 Response awaited 15. Classical and Modern Ainu 40 Osami Okuda (Sapporo Gakuin University) 16. Areal Relations and Contact Issues 30 Nicolas Tranter (University of Sheffield) 17. Japanese and Korean Overseas 10 To be allocated 18. Transcription Systems 5 Editor Bibliography Total (before index): 500