Irregular Phonological Marking of Japanese Compounds : : Benjamin Smith Lyman’s Pioneering Research on Rendaku / / Timothy J. Vance.

Benjamin Smith Lyman (1835–1920) was an American geologist and mining engineer who worked for the Japanese government as a foreign expert in the 1870s. He is famous among linguists for an article about a set of Japanese morphophonemic alternations known as rendaku (sometimes translated as “sequentia...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The Mouton-NINJAL Library of Linguistics [MNLL] , 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVII, 525 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Series preface
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • 1 The Rendaku Alternations
  • 2 Lyman’s Life and Work
  • 3 Lyman’s 1878 Article
  • 4 Commentary on Lyman’s 1878 Article
  • 5 Lyman’s 1894 Article
  • 6 Ogura’s 1910 Critique
  • 7 Lyman’s Rendaku Research from a Modern Perspective
  • Appendix Lyman’s Examples
  • References
  • Notes
  • Index