Synchrony and Diachrony of Okinawan Kakari Musubi in Comparative Perspective with Premodern Japanese
Our rough guess is there are 4,750 words in this book.
At a pace averaging 250 words per minute, this book will take 0 hours and 19 minutes to read. With a half hour per day, this will take 1 days to read.
How long will it take you?
This book will take an estimated to read at a reading speed averaging words per minute. With 30 minutes per day, this will take to read.
Enter your reading speedYou can take one of our WPM reading speed tests to find your reading speed.
Create a free account to track your reading progress, build your reading list, and set reading goals.
We earn a commission on purchases
Word Count
4,750 words, Guess
Page Count
19 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL34376822M
- ISBN-139789004219021
- OCLC Control Number856904812
Classifications
- LCCPL693.R9 S56 2013
Description
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.
Subjects
Reader Reviews
No reviews yet for this book.
Be the first to share your thoughts!