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Roy Andrew Miller (born September 5 , 1924 ) is a Linguist notable for his advocacy of Korean and Japanese as members of the Altaic group of languages. Miller was born in Winona, Minnesota . In 1953 , he completed a PhD in Chinese and Japanese at Columbia University in New York. Long a student of languages, his early work in the 1950s was largely with Chinese and Tibetan . For example, in 1969 he wrote the Encyclopædia Britannica entry on the Tibeto-Burman Language s of South Asia . He was Professor of Linguistics at the International Christian University in Tokyo from 1955 to 1963 . Subsequently he taught at Yale University ; between 1964 and 1970 , he was chairman of the department of East and South Asian Languages and Literatures. From 1970 until 1989 he held a similar post at the University Of Washington in Seattle . Since then, he has taught in Europe , mainly in Germany and Scandinavia . Prof. Miller has written extensively on the Japanese language, from ''A Japanese Reader'' (). On the occasion of Miller's 75th birthday, Professors Karl Menges and Nelly Naumann prepared a Festschrift highlighting his career and including articles on Altaic languages. MILLER'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO TIBETAN LINGUISTICS MILLER, Roy Andrew. 1955a. “Studies in spoken Tibetan I: phonemics.” ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'' 75: 46-51. _____. 1955b. Review of チベット語古典文法学 / ''Chibettogo koten bunpōgaku''. Tibetan Language Grammatical Studies. (昭和Shōwa 29.) by Inaba Shōju稻葉正就. Kyoto: 法藏館 Hōzōkan, 1954. Language 31. 481-482 _____. 1955c. “Notes on the Lhasa dialect of the early ninth century.” ''Oriens'' 8: 284-291. _____. 1962. “The Si-tu Mahapandita on Tibetan Phonology.” 湯浅八郎博士古稀記念論文集 / ''Yuasa Hachirō hakushi koki kinen ronbunshu / To Dr. Hachiro Yusasa; A collection of Papers commemorating his Seventieth Anniversary.'' 921-933. Tokyo: 国際基督教大学 / Kokusai Kirisutokyō Daigaku. _____. 1966. “Early Evidence for Vowel Harmony in Tibetan.” ''Language'' 42: 252-277. _____. 1968. Review of ''Tibeto-Mongolica: The Loanwords of Mongour and the Development of the Archaic Tibetan Dialects.'' (Indo-Iranian Monographs 7.) by András Róna-Tas. The Hague: Mouton, 1966. Language 44.1: 147-168. _____. 1993. ''Prologomena to the First Two Tibetan Grammatical Treatises.'' (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 30.) Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universität Wien. _____. 1994. “A New Grammar of Written Tibetan.” Review of ''The Classical Tibetan Language'', by Stephen Beyer. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'' 114.1. 67-76. SOURCE Menges, Karl H. and Nelly Naumann, Ed. ''Language and Literature--Japanese and the other Altaic Languages.'' Harrossowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, Germany. 1999. |