COMMENTS

Abstract

Ramsey: Professor Ramsey's work is definitely a welcome addition to the phonology of Middle Korean. He is quite right in postulating the two syllable stems for Class 1h verb forms and distinguishing two types of vowels: (1) the vowel of the enclitic ending with an accent (such as -o1/u, -oni/uni, -omye/umye); (2) the stem final vowel of Class Ib verb forms. In addition, Professor Ramsey has convincingly strengthened his hypothesis with evidence of the "unlenited" p and s from South Hamkyeng dialect for their corresponding Middle Korean Wand z.