Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)

By Elisabeth M. Boer

The author establishes a theory of dialect divergence that avoids the problems caused by assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese historical dialectology. It explains why Japanese is best understood as a restricted tone language, and why mergers in the large tone classes of nouns and verbs are especially reliable markers of dialect divergence.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027214964
• ISBN13: 9789027214966
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.2" x 0.5" x 9.7"