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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Tables List of Contributors John B. Whitman Bibliography Tabula Gratulatoria Documentation 1 The Digital Museum Project for the Documentation of Endangered Languages: The Case of Ikema Ryukyuan Yukinori Takubo Historical Linguistics 2 Disentangling Japonic seaweed from Koreo-Japonic water Anton Antonov 3 On Feature Ranking in Japanese Onset Obstruents Bjarke Frellesvig 4 Fishy Rhymes: Sino-Korean Evidence for Earlier Korean *e Marc H. Miyake 5 A mokkan Perspective on Some Issues in Japanese Historical Phonology Sven Osterkamp 6 A (More) Comparative Approach to Some Japanese Etymologies Thomas Pellard 7 The Role of Internal Reconstruction in Comparing the Accent Systems of Korean Dialects S. Robert Ramsey 8 How Many OJ Syllables are Reflected in EMJ yo? J. Marshall Unger 9 On the Etymology of the Name of Mt. Fuji Alexander Vovin Theoretical Linguistics 10 Against a VP Ellipsis Account of Russian Verb-Stranding Constructions John Frederick Bailyn 11 A New Approach to -zhe in Mandarin Chinese Redouane Djamouri and Waltraud Paul 12 Japanese Experiential -te iru Mamori Sugita Hughes and William McClure 13 DP versus NP: A Cross-Linguistic Typology? Jaklin Kornfilt 14 The Old Japanese Accusative Revisited: Realizing All the Universal Options Shigeru Miyagawa 15 Japanese Wh-Phrases as Unvalued Operators Mamoru Saito Index
