Synchrony and Diachrony of Okinawan Kakari Musubi in Comparative Perspective with Premodern Japanese

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-21902-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 19 Seiten, Gewicht: 562 g

Reihe: Languages of Asia

Offers reconstructions, comparative-functional analyses, and evaluations of grammaticalization-based hypotheses on kakari musubi's origin, development, and demise.

In "Synchrony and Diachrony of Okinawan and Premodern Japanese Kakari Musubi," Rumiko Shinzato and Leon A. Serafim offer reconstructions, comparative-functional analyses, and evaluations of grammaticalization-based hypotheses on kakari musubi's origin, development, and demise.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shinzato, Rumiko

Serafim, Leon A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Über Autor(innen)

Rumiko Shinzato, Ph.D. (1984) University of Hawai‘i, is Professor of Japanese at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has published numerous book chapters and journal articles on topics such as aspect, evidentiality, subjectivity, grammaticalization and language maintenance.

Leon A. Serafim, Ph.D. (1984) Yale, was Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Hawai‘i. He has published articles on Japonic (Ryukyuan and Japanese) (pre)history, and helped edit the Okinawan-English Wordbook and J/K 19. His current interests are, especially, grammaticalization and historical syntax.