Marc Miyake

Marc Hideo Miyake
Miyake at the British Museum with an Ogham stone, February 2015
Born	(1971-07-28) July 28, 1971 Aiea, Hawaii
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	University of Hawaii at Manoa
Known for	Study of Old Japanese and Tangut language
Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics
Institutions	British Museum
Doctoral advisor	Alexander Vovin

Marc Hideo Miyake (Japanese name: 三宅 英雄 (Miyake Hideo); born July 28, 1971) is an American linguist, who specializes in historical linguistics, particularly the study of Old Japanese and Tangut.

Biography

Miyake was born in Aiea, Hawaii in 1971, and attended Punahou School in Honolulu, graduating in 1989. He studied Japanese language and literature at University of California, Berkeley, and then studied linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, 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 Old Japanese, but is also known for his work on the extinct Tangut language.

He is currently a research assistant in linguistics at the British Museum. His research concerns the decipherment of Pyu inscriptions.

Works

• 2003. Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-30575-6
• 2006. "Kana's Korean origins"; in Françoise Bottéro & Redouane Djamouri (eds.), Ecriture chinoise : données, usages et représentations. ISBN 2-910216-08-X.
• 2012. "Complexity from Compression: a Sketch of Pre-Tangut". In Irina Popova (ed.), Тангуты в Центральной Азии: сборник статей в честь 80-летия проф. Е.И.Кычанова [Tanguts in Central Asia: a collection of articles marking the 80th anniversary of Prof. E. I. Kychanov] pp. 244–261. Moscow: Oriental Literature, 2012. ISBN 978-5-02-036505-6

External links

• Abode of Amritas (Miyake's linguistic blog)