Selected Early Western Contributors to the Study of the Korean Language

The purpose of this article is to present Western scholars, five Christian missionaries and two diplomats, who contributed to the development of the study of Korean language and its rules of grammar. This examination includes a comprehensive analysis and description of works published at that time...

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Main Author: Paweł Kida
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Language:English
Published: Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2025-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.akademicka.pl/politeja/article/view/6512
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description The purpose of this article is to present Western scholars, five Christian missionaries and two diplomats, who contributed to the development of the study of Korean language and its rules of grammar. This examination includes a comprehensive analysis and description of works published at that time by John Ross (1877, 1882), Félix-Clair Ridel (1881), James Scott (1887, 1893), Camille Imbault-Huart (1893), Horace Grant Underwood (1890, 1914), James Scarth Gale (1894, 1903), and Annie Laurie Baird (1911), with a particular focus on their missionary or official foreign service activities, linguistic practices, grammatical content, and the language of translation from Korean into a native language. These works played an essential role in the formation of further linguistic research in Korea.
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Selected Early Western Contributors to the Study of the Korean Language
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Korean language
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James Scott
Camille Imbault-Huart
Horace Grant Underwood
title Selected Early Western Contributors to the Study of the Korean Language
title_full Selected Early Western Contributors to the Study of the Korean Language
title_fullStr Selected Early Western Contributors to the Study of the Korean Language
title_full_unstemmed Selected Early Western Contributors to the Study of the Korean Language
title_short Selected Early Western Contributors to the Study of the Korean Language
title_sort selected early western contributors to the study of the korean language
topic Korean language
John Ross
Félix-Clair Ridel
James Scott
Camille Imbault-Huart
Horace Grant Underwood
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