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Author Shinzato.

Title Synchrony and diachrony of Okinawan Kakari Musubi in comparative perspective with premodern Japanese / Rumiko Shinzato ; Leon A. Serafim.

Publication Info. Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (334 pages).
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Series Languages of Asia ; 11
Languages of Asia series ; 11.
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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Subject Japanese language -- History.
Japanese language.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
ISBN 9789004219038 (electronic book)
900421903X (electronic book)
9004219021
9789004219021