| Synchrony and Diachrony of Okinawan Kakari Musubi in Comparative Perspective with Premodern Japanese Contributor(s): Shinzato, Rumiko (Author), Serafim, Leon A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004219021 ISBN-13: 9789004219021 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $179.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Etymology |
| Series: Languages of Asia |
| Physical Information: 19 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |