Synchrony and Diachrony of Okinawan Kakari Musubi in Comparative Perspective with Premodern Japanese

by Rumiko Shinzato and Leon A Serafim

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004219021
• ISBN13: 9789004219021
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 19 Pages