Synchrony and diachrony of Okinawan Kakari Musubi in comparative perspective with premodern Japanese / / Rumiko Shinzato and Leon A. Serafim.
Rumiko Shinzato and Leon A. Serafim bring a new dimension to kakari musubi (a type of focus construction, henceforth KM) research, incorporating Japanese and Western linguistic theories, and synthesizing Okinawan and Japanese scholarship. Specifically, they analyze still-extant Okinawan KM in compar...
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Superior document: | Languages of Asia Series ; Volume 11 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Global Oriental,, 2013. ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Languages of Asia series ;
Volume 11. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Summary: | Rumiko Shinzato and Leon A. Serafim bring a new dimension to kakari musubi (a type of focus construction, henceforth KM) research, incorporating Japanese and Western linguistic theories, and synthesizing Okinawan and Japanese scholarship. Specifically, they analyze still-extant Okinawan KM in comparative perspective with its now extinct Japanese counterpart, while also offering reconstructed Proto-Japonic forms. Major hypotheses on the origins and demise of KM with insight from Okinawan are also evaluated. In addition, viewing KM as consisting of kakari particle + nominalized musubi predicate, they compare KM with its structural analogs, such as (1) Modern Japanese no-da , (2) its corollary in Japanese Western Periphery dialects, and (3) English it-clefts. Finally, the authors apply iconicity-based analyses and grammaticalization theory, interpreting correspondences between deictic-origin particles, which are shared, their epistemically unique musubi forms, and their respective functions. |
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Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Rumiko Shinzato and Leon A. Serafim. |