The Language of the Old-Okinawan Omoro Sōshi - Reference Grammar, with Textual Selections

In this volume, Leon A. Serafim and Rumiko Shinzato offer a grammatical and phonological description of the Old Okinawan language for comparison with other Ryukyuan languages and Old Japanese, phonologically reconstructing, translating, and annotating selected omoros.

About the author

Leon A Serafim, Ph.D. (1984), Yale, was Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Hawai'i. He has published articles on Japonic (Ryukyuan and Japanese) (pre)history, and helped edit the Okinawan-English Wordbook and J/K 19. His current interests are, especially, grammaticalization and historical syntax.

Rumiko Shinzato, Ph.D. (1984), University of Hawai'i, is Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has published chapters/articles on aspect, evidentiality, subjectivity, grammaticalization and language maintenance. She and Leon A Serafim co-authored a book on Okinawan kakari musubi (Brill 2013).

Product details

• Authors: Leon A Serafim, Leon A. Serafim, Rumiko Shinzato
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2021
• EAN: 9789004414693
• ISBN: 978-90-04-41469-3
• No. of pages: 446
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 748 g
• Series: Languages of Asia
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries