The accentual history of the Japanese and Ryukyuan languages : a reconstruction
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The accentual history of the Japanese and Ryukyuan languages : a reconstruction
(Languages of Asia series, v. 2)
Global Oriental, 2007
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-362)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations and Notations
- 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
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