Books review of author Robert Ramsay pdf
Robert Ramsay is Professor of East Asian Linguistics at the University of Maryland and former Chair of the Department of Asian and Eastern European Languages and Cultures. He has also taught at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. He has received teaching awards from the Korean Students' Association and Asian Students' Union at the University of Maryland, and from the Center for Teaching Excellence at the same university. Ramsay does primary research on the historical development of the Japanese and Korean languages and the historical relationships between the two languages. He is probably best known for his work on Korean dialects and for reconstructing the prehistoric stages of Korean. He has also written extensively on sociolinguistics topics. He has authored three books and dozens of articles, and has lectured widely on various linguistic topics in Japan, Korea, Europe and the United States.