Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History

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...

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description 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1433472024-08-28T12:32:02Z Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History de Boer, Elisabeth James M. Unger Linguistics Historical linguistics Japanese thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics 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. Published 2024-08-28T12:31:58Z 2024-08-28T12:31:58Z 2024-08-09 book 9789027246776 (eb) 9789027214966 (hb) https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/143347 eng Current Issues in Linguistic Theory image/png Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt.365 https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.365 John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 10.1075/cilt.365 10.1075/cilt.365 a0ecc02e-9674-41da-98fe-e7842d79279a 9789027246776 (eb) 9789027214966 (hb) John Benjamins Publishing Company 36 viii, 130 pp. Amsterdam open access
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Historical linguistics
Japanese
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de Boer, Elisabeth
Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History
title Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History
title_full Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History
title_fullStr Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History
title_full_unstemmed Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History
title_short Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History
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topic Linguistics
Historical linguistics
Japanese
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics
topic_facet Linguistics
Historical linguistics
Japanese
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