A reconstruction of proto-Japanese accent for disyllabic nouns: Focusing on the problem of subclasses
A reconstruction of proto-Japanese accent for disyllabic nouns: Focusing on the problem of subclasses
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双音节名词的原始日本口音的重建:关注子类问题
DOI:
10.1075/cilt.294.10shi
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2008
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Moriyo Shimabukuro
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作者:
Moriyo Shimabukuro
Based on the modern Japanese languages and dialects and their historical written materials, this chapter attempts to reconstruct a proto-Japanese (pJ) accent system for disyllabic nouns. This is not the first attempt; there have been a number of insightful studies that have investigated earlier forms of Japanese accent and have reconstructed pJ accent. This chapter will first examine the hypotheses presented in previous studies, and point out advantages and disadvantages. The chapter also suggests its own hypothesis about the accentual history of Japanese disyllabic accent, focusing on problems concerning the classification of accent classes for Ryukyuan disyllabic nouns. This chapter discusses classification of accent for disyllabic nouns, examining Hattori‘s and Kindaichi‘s classifications by looking into Ryukyuan data (§ 2); 1 reconstruction of proto-Ryukyuan (pR) and pJ disyllabic accent classes, evaluating four possible hypotheses (§ 3); and the characteristics of pR and pJ accent, positing vowel length distinctions in earlier forms of Japanese (§ 4).