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

English · Hardback

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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.

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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

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