Roger Finch, (April 17, 1937 – October 4, 2019)

Participation

• 41^st Meeting, 1998: “Korean Hankul and the h̠P‘ags-pa script”
• 43^rd Meeting, 2000:
  • Communication: “Shamanistic Terms in the Altaic Languages”
  • Proceedings: “Distribution of the ‘Shaman’s drum’ or single-headed frame drum”
• 45^th Meeting, 2002:
  • Communication: The Dual Number in the Altaic Languages
  • Proceedings: “The Dual Number in Turco-Chuvash“
• 48^th Meeting, 2005: “The Suffix /-ko/ in Japanese”
• 49^th Meeting, 2006: “Folk Taxonomy of Japanese Birds”
• 52^nd Meeting, 2009: “The Polyphemus Figure (Depegöz) in The Book of Dede Korkut“
• 54^th Meeting, 2011: “Christianity among the Cumans”
• 56^th Meeting, 2013: “Gender Distinctions on the Nouns and Pronouns of the Altaic Languages”

Obituary

In 1989, Denis Sinor writes:

In recent years Dr. ROGER FINCH published a number of articles of potential interest to members of the PIAC. They appeared in Waseda Daigaku Gogaku Kyôiku Kenkyûsho: Kiyo (Bulletin of the Institute of Language Teaching. Waseda University) and include: “A Middle Mongolian Invocation of Manjusri,” “The Hymn to Mahakali by Coski Odser,” “The Three Evil Existences in Middle Mongolian,” “Toward a Reconstruction of the Chinese Characters used for The Secret Historv of the Mongols,” “Chapter XXX of the Uigur Suvarnaprabhasottama Sutra (Altun yarug).” He also published an article on “Vowel Harmony in Yakut,” (Sophia Linguistica (Tokyo) 18 (1985), pp. 1-17.