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Using tonal data to recover Japanese language history
Title
Using tonal data to recover Japanese language history / Elisabeth M. de Boer ; edited by J. Marshall Unger.
ISBN
9789027214966
9027214964
9789027246776
Publication
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2024]
Physical Description
viii, 130 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary
"This book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tōkyō Japanese is an appropriate basis for describing the suprasegmental phonology of other dialects and earlier stages of Japanese; that the Kyōto-type dialects have been more conservative than dialects to their east and west; that the first split in proto-Japanese was the separation of proto-Ryūkyūan; and so on. De Boer brings together evidence from recent fieldwork, premodern texts, and other sources to establish a theory of dialect divergence that avoids the problems these assumptions entail. Building on De Boer 2010, this book brings the author's theory up to date with research published in the interim, explains why Japanese is best understood as a restricted tone language, and why mergers in the large tone classes of nouns and verbs are especially reliable markers of dialect divergence"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Boer, Elisabeth M. de. Using tonal data to recover Japanese language history Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 18, 2024
Series
Current issues in linguistic theory, v. 365
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A brief history of dialect research and dialect classification of Japanese
Tone or pitch-accent? Analysis and use of terminology
The tone systems of the modern dialects
On the interpretation of Middle Japanese tone notations
Tracing the tone class divisions
Outline of tonal developments in the history of Japanese
The importance of compounds in proto-Japanese reconstruction
The tone rules for compound nouns in Middle Japanese
The tones of compounds with long codas in the modern dialects
The tones of compounds with short codas in the modern dialects
The genealogy of the dialects on Sea of Japan coast and Kyūshū.
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