The Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond presented in honour of Prof. John B. Whitman includes contributions by a range of mid-generation to senior scholars among his closest colleagues and collaborators representing the front line of contemporary research in the areas of historical and theoretical linguistics of Japanese and Korean as well of Chinese, Turkish, and Russian. Particularly, in all these areas it deals with still ongoing debates about the important issues in historical and theoretical linguistics concerning these languages that are reflected in articles often representing opposing points of view. This book can serve as a good introduction to the current state-of-art and the most essential problems in the fields it covers.
Author(s): William McClure; Alexander Vovin
Series: The Languages of Asia 16
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: xxxii+198
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Tables
List of Contributors
John B. Whitman Bibliography
Tabula Gratulatoria
Part 1. Documentation
Chapter 1. The Digital Museum Project for the Documentation of Endangered Languages: The Case of Ikema Ryukyuan (Takubo)
Part 2. Historical Linguistics
Chapter 2. Disentangling Japonic Seaweed from Koreo-Japonic Water (Antonov)
Chapter 3. On Feature Ranking in Japanese Onset Obstruents (Frellesvig)
Chapter 4. Fishy Rhymes: Sino-Korean Evidence for Earlier Korean *e (Miyake)
Chapter 5. A mokkan Perspective on Some Issues in Japanese Historical Phonology (Osterkamp)
Chapter 6. A (More) Comparative Approach to Some Japanese Etymologies (Pellard)
Chapter 7. The Role of Internal Reconstruction in Comparing the Accent Systems of Korean Dialects (Ramsey)
Chapter 8. How Many OJ Syllables are Reflected in EMJ yo? (Unger)
Chapter 9. On the Etymology of the Name of Mt. Fuji (Vovin)
Part 3. Theoretical Linguistics
Chapter 10. Against a VP Ellipsis Account of Russian Verb-Stranding Constructions (Bailyn)
Chapter 11. A New Approach to -zhe in Mandarin Chinese (Djamouri and Paul)
Chapter 12. Japanese Experiential -te iru (Hughes and McClure)
Chapter 13. DP versus NP: A Cross-Linguistic Typology? (Kornfilt)
Chapter 14. The Old Japanese Accusative Revisited: Realizing All the Universal Options (Miyagawa)
Chapter 15. Japanese Wh-Phrases as Unvalued Operators (Saito)
Index
