On reconstruction of proto-Japanese and pre-Old Japanese verb inflection

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Abbreviations 10
6. Part I. Reconstructing the basic phoneme inventory
7. Evidence for seven vowels in proto-Japanese 15
8. Early Japanese lexical strata and the allophones of /g/ 43
9. Part II. Use of dialects in reconstruction
10. Proto-Japanese and the distribution of dialects 57
11. The uses of Ryukyuan in understanding Japanese language history 79
12. Part III. Reconstructing accent
13. On the reconstruction of the proto-accentual system of Japanese 103
14. A reconstruction of proto-Japanese accent for disyllabic nouns: Focusing on the problem of subclasses 125
15. Proto-Japanese beyond the accent system 141
16. Part IV. Reconstructing morphology and syntax
17. The source of the bigrade conjugation and stem shape in pre-Old Japanese 159
18. On reconstruction of proto-Japanese and pre-Old Japanese verb inflection 175
19. The Nominal and Adnominal forms in Old Japanese: Consequences for a reconstruction of pre-Old Japanese syntax 193
20. References 217
21. Index 227