is an American

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

who specializes in

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature and causes of linguistic change and to trace the evolution of languages. Historical li ...

, particularly the study of

Old Japanese is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language, recorded in documents from the Nara period (8th century). It became Early Middle Japanese in the succeeding Heian period, but the precise delimitation of the stages is controversial. Old Ja ...

and Tangut.

Biography

Miyake was born in Aiea, Hawaii, in 1971, and attended

Punahou School Punahou School (known as Oahu College until 1934) is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school in Honolulu, Hawaii. More than 3,700 students attend the school from kindergarten through 12th grade. The school was established by P ...

Honolulu Honolulu ( ; ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, located in the Pacific Ocean. It is the county seat of the Consolidated city-county, consolidated City and County of Honol ...

, graduating in 1989. He studied Japanese language and literature at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

, and then studied linguistics at the

University of Hawaii at Manoa A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Univ ...

, 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''. He is best known for his work on the phonetic reconstruction of

, but is also known for his work on the extinct

Tangut language Tangut (Tangut: ; ) is an extinct language in the Sino-Tibetan language family. Tangut was one of the official languages of the Western Xia, Western Xia dynasty, founded by the Tangut people in northwestern China. The Western Xia was annihilate ...

. Between 2015 and 2019 Miyake was a research assistant at the

British Museum The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human cu ...

, working on the decipherment of Pyu inscriptions. At the same time he was also a research associate in the Department of Linguistics at the

School of Oriental and African Studies The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS University of London; ) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury area ...

Works

* Miyake, Marc Hideo (2003). ''Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction''. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon. . * * 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'' E. I. Kychanov">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. * * *

References

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 Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese language, Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese. The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones ...

(

SOAS The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS University of London; ) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury area ...

, November 2015)
Miyake's presentation
on data management for the decipherment of the Pyu language (

, November 2017)
Miyake's phonetic database for Tangut
(explanation of system of transcription)
version 4.0
{{DEFAULTSORT:Miyake, Marc Hideo 1971 births Hawaii people of Japanese descent Academics of SOAS University of London American expatriates in the United Kingdom American Japanologists Employees of the British Museum Linguists from the United States Living people Punahou School alumni Tangutologists University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni Linguists of Pyu (Sino-Tibetan)