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the following year), and was immediately offered a position at Yale University, where he remained until his retirement in 1994. He was made professor of Far Eastern Linguistics in 1962, and chaired both the Department of East and South Asian Languages and the Department of Linguistics. He also served
434:(1970). His most famous work from this period was a 1966 article, "Lexical evidence relating Korean to Japanese", that was based on a systematic application of the comparative method, and which advanced the hypothesis that Korean and Japanese are 456:, making detailed analysis of numerous 15th and 16th century Korean texts, which he used as the basis for a database of Middle Korean linguistic structures and examples. This work formed the backbone of his monumental 467:
In addition to his scholarly linguistic works, Martin was interested in the teaching of East Asian languages, and he wrote a number of elementary texts and dictionaries for beginners. According to a
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related. He also published articles on subjects that had been very little studied until that time, such as sound symbolism in Korean (1962) and speech styles in Japan and Korea (1964).
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system for transliterating Korean, which is extensively used by linguists. During this period he also made important contributions on Chinese, producing a monograph on the phonemes of
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as director of undergraduate studies in linguistics and director of graduate studies in East Asian languages and literatures. He was an executive fellow of Timothy Dwight College.
1070: 151: 880:——— (2002). "Coming and going: deictic verbs in Korean and Japanese". In Lee, Sang-Oak; Iverson, Gregory K.; Ahn, Sang-Cheol; Cho, Young-mee Yu (eds.). 479:" as a gender-neutral term for a nephew or niece, by analogy with the word "sibling" (though Merriam-Webster's lexicographers had been unable to verify this directly). 1085: 368:, where his daughter Norah Martin teaches philosophy. During his retirement, Martin continued research on a variety of linguistic topics, notably 660:——— (1991). "Recent research on the relationships of Japanese and Korean". In Lamb, Sydney M.; Mitchell, E. Douglas (eds.). 340:, where he majored in Oriental Languages. He graduated in 1947, but stayed on at Berkeley to study for a master's degree in linguistics under 1055: 387:
In the 1950s Martin worked on issues relating to Japanese and Korean orthography and romanizations. At this time he coined the term "
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A Reference Grammar of Korean: A Complete Guide to the Grammar and History of the Korean Language
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he was trained as a Japanese Language Officer, and was stationed in Japan at the end of the war.
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Proceedings International Symposium Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Korean Liberation
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Pathways into Korean Language and Culture: Essays in Honor of Young-Key Kim-Renaud
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Martin in 1994, when he received the Republic of Korea Presidential Medal of Honor
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Sprung from Some Common Source: Investigations into the Prehistory of Languages
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During the 1960s Martin extended his linguistic talents to studies of the
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Essential Japanese: An Introduction to the Standard Colloquial Language
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In Memoriam: Samuel Martin, Illuminated Korean and Japanese Languages
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known for seminal work on the languages of East Asia, a professor at
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In 1994, Martin was awarded the Korean government's Presidential
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During the 1980s Martin concentrated his research activities on
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After Martin retired from Yale University, he moved to near
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Consonant Lenition in Korean and the Macro-Altaic Question
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Recipients of the Order of Cultural Merit (South Korea)
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Medal of Honor for Distinguished Cultural Contributions
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Korean in a Hurry: A Quick Approach to Spoken Korean
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