Synchrony and diachrony of Okinawan Kakari Musubi in comparative perspective with premodern Japanese / Rumiko Shinzato ; Leon A. Serafim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shinzato.

Series:

Languages of Asia 11.

Languages of Asia ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese language--History.

Japanese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rumiko Shinzato and Leon A. Serafim bring a new dimension to kakari musubi (a type of focus construction, henceforth KM) research, incorporating Japanese and Western linguistic theories, and synthesizing Okinawan and Japanese scholarship. Specifically, they analyze still-extant Okinawan KM in comparative perspective with its now extinct Japanese counterpart, while also offering reconstructed Proto-Japonic forms. Major hypotheses on the origins and demise of KM with insight from Okinawan are also evaluated. In addition, viewing KM as consisting of kakari particle + nominalized musubi predicate, they compare KM with its structural analogs, such as (1) Modern Japanese no-da , (2) its corollary in Japanese Western Periphery dialects, and (3) English it-clefts. Finally, the authors apply iconicity-based analyses and grammaticalization theory, interpreting correspondences between deictic-origin particles, which are shared, their epistemically unique musubi forms, and their respective functions.

Contents:

Preliminary material

Introduction

Question-Forming Kakari Musubi

Assertion-Forming Kakari Musubi

Different Developments of Kakari Musubi in Japanese and Okinawan

KM in Theoretical Perspective

Conclusion and Prospects

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

871223325

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004219038 DOI