The Historical Development of Japanese Tone: From Proto-Japanese to the Modern Dialects. the Introduction and Adaptation of the Middle Chinese Tones i

By Elisabeth M. De Boer

The reconstruction of the historical development of the modern Japanese tone systems is one of the major issues in Japanese historical linguistics. The prevalent theory (Kindaichi 1951), which regards... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447062827
• ISBN13: 9783447062824
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 600 Pages