This book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tokyo Japanese is an appropriate basis for describing the suprasegmental phonology of other dialects and earlier stages of Japanese; that the Kyoto-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-Ryukyuan; 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.
| ISBN: | 9789027214966 |
| Publication date: | 15th November 2024 |
| Author: | Elisabeth M Boer |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 138 pages |
| Series: | Current Issues in Linguistic Theory |
| Genres: |
Historical and comparative linguistics |
This book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tokyo Japanese is an appropriate basis for describing the suprasegmental phonology of other dialects and earlier stages of Japanese; that the Kyoto-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-Ryukyuan; 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.
Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History features in the following genres: Historical and comparative linguistics
Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History is available in Hardback
Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History was written by Elisabeth M Boer and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company
Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History has 138 pages
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