The World of
Comparative and Historical Linguistics
(A Historical Survey of the
Romance Languages)
This website presents some of Prof.
Wilkinson�fs academic papers on comparative linguistics relating to the
development from Latin to the modern Romance languages. Please feel free to
give us your comment from the form below if you have any questions or would
like to know more. Most of the papers in this website have been published in
Aoyama Gakuin�fs Ronshu and Aoyama
Keiei Ronshu.
Prof.
Hugh Everard Wilkinson was born in London and later moved to the Brighton area.
He majored in comparative philology at the University of Cambridge, where he
was a member of King�fs College and received his M.A. He taught at Aoyama Gakuin
University (Tokyo, Japan). He is currently an emeritus professor of Aoyama
Gakuin and a past president of The Asiatic Society of Japan.
��The
Subjunctive in the Romance Languages (pdf)
��The Latinity of Ibero-Romance (pdf)
��The Vulgar Latin (Proto-Romance) Conjugation System
(pdf)
��Vowel
Alternation in the Spanish -IR
Verbs�@(pdf)
��The
Portuguese Nasal Vowels:
Some Hints from Japanese (word)
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to read the paper.
�� Notes
on Spanish -IÓ < -EU and the Weak Preterite Ending (pdf)
�� Notes
on the Development of -KJ- and -TJ- in Spanish and Portuguese�@(pdf)
�@ �� Evidence in English for the Occurrence
of [š] in Old French (pdf)
�@ �� The Strong perfects in the Romance Languages
part 1 (pdf)
�@ part2 (pdf)
�@ part 3 (pdf)
�@
Bibliography (pdf)
�@ �� Middle English LoanWords
from across the North Sea (pdf)
�� Notes on some Adverbial and
Prepositional Formations in Romance
Other
works by Prof. Wilkinson published in the above Aoyama Gakuin journals include:
�@ "The Latin Neuter Plurals in
Romance"
"The Development of Latin -ULU-, -ULA- in
Romance"
"Proto-Romance Verb Formation by Suffixation"
For a detailed list of Prof. Wilkinson�fs papers, please
visit Google Scholar and CiNii.
He has also published some articles on English, notably
on the historical development of shall and will. As a
long-standing member of the Council of the Asiatic Society of Japan he has also
contributed an article on the historical development of Japanse phonology to the
Society's Transactions. Longer works include a history of the English
language designed for Japanese students, titled The How and Why of English
(Eigoshi Nyūmon), published by Kenkyusha (1977). He was also chief editor of The
Kenkyusha College English Dictionary (Karejji Ei-Ei Jiten), published in
1999; this is an expanded and updated version of their New Collegiate
Dictionary of the English Language (Shin Ei-Ei Jiten).
If you wish to cite any part of the above papers in any kind of
document, please mention Prof. Wilkinson�fs name, and, hopefully, let us know
from the form below.
