The accentual history of the Japanese and Ryukyuan languages [electronic resource] : a reconstruction / Moriyo Shimabukuro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shimabukuro, Moriyo.

Series:

Languages of Asia series ; v. 2.

Languages of Asia series ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese language.

Ryukyuan language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Folkestone [England] : Global Oriental, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book looks into the accentual history of the Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages. Applying the comparative method, the author has reconstructed the accentual history of the Japonic languages. The reconstruction is based on modern dialects of Japanese and Ryukyuan, and also on historical materials. The investigation of ‘natural accent changes’ has allowed the author to formalize rules for accent change. Using these rules, the developments of the accent systems of descendant dialects or languages are explained. The development of typologically different accent systems is also explored.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

1. Introduction

2. Previous Scholarship: A Critical Review

3. Historical Linguistic Methods

4. Accent Change

5. Reconstruction Of Proto-Ryukyuan Accent

6. Reconstruction Of Proto-Mainland Japanese Accent

7. Reconstruction Of Proto-Japonic Accent

8. Conclusion

References

Appendix. Japonic Cognates And Reconstructed Forms.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-48609-8

9786612486098

90-04-21340-6

OCLC:

753480428

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9781901903638.i-376 DOI