Synchrony and diachrony of Okinawan Kakari Musubi in comparative perspective with premodern Japanese /
Shinzato.
Synchrony and diachrony of Okinawan Kakari Musubi in comparative perspective with premodern Japanese / Rumiko Shinzato ; Leon A. Serafim. - 1 online resource (334 pages) - Languages of Asia ; 11 . - Languages of Asia 11. Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248724. .
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.
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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.
9789004219038
10.1163/9789004219038 DOI
Japanese language--History.
PL525 / .S55 2013
410
Synchrony and diachrony of Okinawan Kakari Musubi in comparative perspective with premodern Japanese / Rumiko Shinzato ; Leon A. Serafim. - 1 online resource (334 pages) - Languages of Asia ; 11 . - Languages of Asia 11. Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248724. .
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.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789004219038
10.1163/9789004219038 DOI
Japanese language--History.
PL525 / .S55 2013
410