Russian sources on Korean dialects

This thesis systematically analyzes the Korean dialect materials preserved in rare Russian-language materials from the turn of this century. Most of these materials have never been studied, and hold valuable information on the dialect(s) spoken by the Koreans who started emigrating to Russia in the 1860s.;The thesis shows that these dialects are an archaic variety of North Hamkyeng dialect, a poorly documented Korean dialect: it explains its pecularities and reconstructs its development through comparison with Modern Seoul Standard (SS), Soviet Korean (from the author's field data), and 15th-century Middle Korean (MK).;Chapter 1, "Introduction and Pre-Putsillo Sources," introduces the thesis and analyzes Russian sources published before 1874.;Chapter 2, "Putsillo's Korean-Russian Dictionary (1874)," analyzes the materials in Putsillo (1874). Putsillo's dictionary contains excellent data from North Hamkyeng dialect. This chapter uncovers correspondences between North Hamkyeng dialect, SS and MK of importance to Korean etymology.;Chapter 3, "Post-1874 Russian Sources," continues the survey of Russian materials begun in Chapter 1, and surveys sixteen sources.;Chapter 4, "Kim Pyeng-ok's Koreiskie Teksty (1898) and Posobie k Izucheniiu Koreiskago Iazyka (1899)," translates, annotates and analyzes the 'Tale of Ch'unhyang' in Kim Pyeng-ok (1898), and then discusses Kim Pyeng-ok (1899). Both works are analyzed for the first time.;Chapter 5, "Two Korean Language Guides from the Russo-Japanese War," analyzes Kim Pyeng-ok's (1904) Razvedchiku v Koree ..., and Xlynovskii (1904) Russko-Iaponsko-Koreiskii Voennyi Perevodchik. Both works are analyzed for the first time.;Chapter 6, "Accent in the Russian Sources," analyzes the data on Hamkyeng pitch-accent from Kim Pyeng-ok (1904) and Xlynovskii (1904), and compares these with data from MK and from Ramsey (1978).;The significance of the thesis is many-fold: (a) it present for the first time valuable data on a poorly known Korean dialect, (b) the data will give new impetus to Korean historical linguistics, (c) it will improve our understanding of the modern standard languages of North and South Korea, (d) it documents an important chapter in the history of Korean linguistics, and (e) it contributes to our understanding of the history and language of the "Soviet Koreans."...