Synchrony and diachrony of Okinawan Kakari Musubi in comparative perspective with premodern Japanese / / Rumiko Shinzato and Leon A. Serafim

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818740403321
• Autore: Shinzato Rumiko
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, Netherlands : , : Global Oriental, , 2013; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Collana: Languages of Asia Series ; ; Volume 11
• Disciplina: 495.6
• Soggetti: Ryukyuan language - Grammar; Ryukyuan language - Grammar, Comparative - Japanese; Japanese language - Dialects - Japan - Okinawa-ken; Japanese language - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary material -- Introduction -- Question-Forming Kakari Musubi -- Assertion-Forming Kakari Musubi -- Different Developments of Kakari Musubi in Japanese and Okinawan -- KM in Theoretical Perspective -- Conclusion and Prospects -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.