Frontmatter -- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- CONTENTS -- MASTER LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE: LINGUISTICS IN EAST ASIA -- 1. CHINA -- HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS / Bodman, Nicholas Cleaveland -- DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS / Chang, Kun -- DIALECTOLOGY / Egerod, Søren -- LANGUAGE AND SCRIPT REFORM / DeFrancis, John -- NATIONAL LANGUAGES / Chang, Kun -- LINGUISTICS IN TAIWAN / Li, Fang-Kuei -- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHINESE LINGUISTICS / Wang, William S.-Y. -- 2. JAPAN -- HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS, INCLUDING AFFILIATIONS WITH OTHER LANGUAGES / Hiroshi, Tsukishima -- DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS IN JAPAN / Shirô, Hattori -- DIALECTOLOGY / Grootaers, Willem A. -- STUDIES OF THE AINU LANGUAGE / Suzuko, Tamura -- POSTWAR STUDIES OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE / Akiyasu, Tōdō -- THE STUDY OF ENGLISH IN JAPAN / Akira, Ōta -- LANGUAGES OF SOUTH EAST ASIA / Tōru, Mineya -- THE WRITING SYSTEM: HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND MODERN DEVELOPMENT / Toshio, Yamada -- 3. KOREA, MONGOLIA, TIBET -- LINGUISTICS IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA / Lukoff, Fred -- THE MONGOLIAN PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC / Poppe, Nicholas -- TIBET / Wylie, Turrell V. -- PART TWO: LINGUISTICS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA -- BURMA / Cornyn, William S. -- THAILAND AND LAOS / Gedney, William J. -- VIETNAM / Thompson, Laurence C. / Thomas, David D. -- INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA / Uhlenbeck, E. M. -- LINGUISTICS IN CAMBODIA AND ON CAMBODIAN / Jacob, Judith M. -- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES -- COMPARATIVE TABLE OF TRANSCRIPTION -- INDEX OF LANGUAGES -- INDEX OF NAMESweiterlesen