Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond

Festschrift Presented to John B. Whitman
approx. xxxii, 158 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-35085-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Japanisch, Band 16, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

Reihe: Languages of Asia

The Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond presented in honour of Prof. John B. Whitman includes contributions by a range of mid-generation to senior scholars among his closest colleagues and collaborators representing the front line of contemporary research in the areas of historical and theoretical linguistics of Japanese and Korean as well of Chinese, Turkish, and Russian. Particularly, in all these areas it deals with still ongoing debates about the important issues in historical and theoretical linguistics concerning these languages that are reflected in articles often representing opposing points of view. This book can serve as a good introduction to the current state-of-art and the most essential problems in the fields it covers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

McClure, William

Vovin, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Tables
List of Contributors
John B. Whitman Bibliography
Tabula Gratulatoria

Documentation

1 The Digital Museum Project for the Documentation of Endangered Languages: The Case of Ikema Ryukyuan
Yukinori Takubo

Historical Linguistics

2 Disentangling Japonic seaweed from Koreo-Japonic water
Anton Antonov

3 On Feature Ranking in Japanese Onset Obstruents
Bjarke Frellesvig

4 Fishy Rhymes: Sino-Korean Evidence for Earlier Korean *e
Marc H. Miyake

5 A mokkan Perspective on Some Issues in Japanese Historical Phonology
Sven Osterkamp

6 A (More) Comparative Approach to Some Japanese Etymologies
Thomas Pellard

7 The Role of Internal Reconstruction in Comparing the Accent Systems of Korean Dialects
S. Robert Ramsey

8 How Many OJ Syllables are Reflected in EMJ yo?
J. Marshall Unger

9 On the Etymology of the Name of Mt. Fuji
Alexander Vovin

Theoretical Linguistics

10 Against a VP Ellipsis Account of Russian Verb-Stranding Constructions
John Frederick Bailyn

11 A New Approach to -zhe in Mandarin Chinese
Redouane Djamouri and Waltraud Paul

12 Japanese Experiential -te iru
Mamori Sugita Hughes and William McClure

13 DP versus NP: A Cross-Linguistic Typology?
Jaklin Kornfilt

14 The Old Japanese Accusative Revisited: Realizing All the Universal Options
Shigeru Miyagawa

15 Japanese Wh-Phrases as Unvalued Operators
Mamoru Saito

Index

Über Autor(innen)

William McClure (1962) is Associate Professor at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author or editor of four books on Japanese language and linguistics. Currently, he is serving as the Dean of Arts and Humanities at Queens College.

Alexander Vovin (1961), Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, is a Directeur d’études of Japanese and North-East Asian historical linguistics in this graduate university. He has published many monographs and articles on Japanese, Korean, Ainu, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic, including his multivolume edition and translation of the Man’yoshu (2009-) and A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (GO/Brill, 2005-2009).