
John B. Whitman
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Contact Information
John B. Whitman
Expertise
Linguistic typology; East Asian linguistics; syntactic theory; historical linguistics
Current Research Interest
Crosslinguistic word order asymmetries; constraints on syntactic change; vernacular reading and glossing in Korean and Japanese
Distinction
Korean Linguistics, Journal of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics, Editor
Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale, Associate member
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Professor emeritus
Selected Publications
Whitman, John. “Old Korean.” In The Handbook of Korean Linguistics, edited by Lucien Brown and Jae Hoon Yeon. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
Whitman, John. “The Relationship Between Japanese and Korean.” In The Languages of Japan and Korea, edited by David N. Tranter. London: Routledge, 2012.