Part of
Proto-Japanese: Issues and ProspectsEdited by Bjarke Frellesvig and John Whitman
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 294] 2008
► pp. v–vi
Edited by Bjarke Frellesvig and John Whitman
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 294] 2008
► pp. v–vi
Table of contents
Acknowledgementsvii
Introduction
Abbreviations
Part I. Reconstructing the basic phoneme inventory13
Evidence for seven vowels in proto-Japanese
Early Japanese lexical strata and the allophones of /g/
Part II. Use of dialects in reconstruction55
Proto-Japanese and the distribution of dialects
The uses of Ryukyuan in understanding Japanese language history
Part III. Reconstructing accent101
On the reconstruction of the proto-accentual system of Japanese
A reconstruction of proto-Japanese accent for disyllabic nouns: Focusing on the problem of subclasses
Proto-Japanese beyond the accent system
Part IV. Reconstructing morphology and syntax157
The source of the bigrade conjugation and stem shape in pre-Old Japanese
On reconstruction of proto-Japanese and pre-Old Japanese verb inflection
The Nominal and Adnominal forms in Old Japanese: Consequences for a reconstruction of pre-Old Japanese syntax
References
Index
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