Publisher: Beloit College ‘10
Date: 2010
Pages: 52
This is a Kansai-ben Survival Manual for Beloit College students' successful study abroad at Kansai Gaidai University in Japan.
Brill, 2023. — xvi, 290 p. — (Endangered and Lesser-Studied Languages and Dialects 2). This book examines the diverse prosody of compound nouns in Kansai Japanese, with a special focus on a class of compounds with particularly variable prosody, whose unique prosody is potentially endangered due to their structure and influence from Tokyo Japanese. These compounds serve as...
Second Edition. — Brill, 2007. — 296 p. — (Brill's Japanese Studies Library 21). Japanese culture, marked both by a strong character of its own and by a continuing absorption of foreign elements, is surprising for its ability of perpetual renewal without loss of identity. The country's industrial organization and productivity have ensured an impact on world affairs far...
Brill, 2004. — 296 p. — (Brill's Japanese Studies Library 21). — ISBN 9004139494. This is the first in-depth study of the extinct Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and northern Korea. It covers the ethnolinguistic history of the Koguryo nation, philological treatment of the sources for the language, Koguryo phonology, and a complete glossary of all Archaic...
Brill, 2008. — 327 p. — (Languages of Asia, Volume: 7). Sakishima comprises a group of islands situated between Okinawa and Taiwan, forming a culturally important bridge between Japan and Taiwan. Studies of the languages of the Ryukyuan islands are valuable for an accurate understanding of the linguistic history of Japan as a whole. This monograph is the first attempt – in any...
Routledge, 2011. — 252 pages. — (Routledge contemporary Japan series). — ISBN: 978-0-203-84667-4.
Despite its monolingual self-image, Japan is multilingual and growing more so due to indigenous minority language revitalization and as an effect of migration. Besides Japan’s autochthonous languages such as the Ainu and Ryukyuan languages, there are more than 75,000 immigrant...
Radboud University Nijmegen, 2021. — 292 p. The thesis investigates patterns of linguistic variation in the Japonic language family. Section 2 of this chapter introduces the processes and drivers of linguistic diversification, with specific attention to the role of geography, as the Japonic languages are spoken across an archipelago. Section 3 introduces two major approaches to...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2025. — 1076 p. — (Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics 7). This volume is the first full-fledged handbook of Japanese dialects in English. The study of Japanese dialects has a long tradition, and significant contributions have been made in many subfields of linguistics such as geolinguistics, sociolinguistics, philology, phonology, accentology,...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. — 224 p. — (Phonology and Phonetics [PP] 31). This is the first comprehensive work on word and sentence prosody in Koshikijima Japanese, a dialect of Japanese not fully documented in the literature. It is an endangered dialect spoken by about 2,000 speakers on a small southern island in Japan. Being separated from mainland dialects by the sea, this...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. — 352 p. — (Phonology and Phonetics [PP] 31). — ISBN 9783110735055. This is the first comprehensive work on word and sentence prosody in Koshikijima Japanese, a dialect of Japanese not fully documented in the literature. It is an endangered dialect spoken by about 2,000 speakers on a small southern island in Japan. Being separated from mainland dialects...
Arizona State University, 2015. — 92 p. This thesis investigates similarities in the diachronic sound changes found in Eastern Old Japanese dialects and in Ryukyuan languages and tests a hypothesis of language contact. I examine three sound changes attested in the Eastern Old Japanese corpus of Kupchik (2011). These three are denasalization of prenasalized obstruents, the...
Editors: Mary Goebel Noguchi, Sandra Fotos Publisher: Multilingual Matters Date: 2001 Pages: 400 ISBN10: 1853594903 ISBN13: 978-1853594908 Language: English Studies in Japanese Bilingualism helps dissolve the myth of Japanese homogeneity by explaining the history of this construct and offering twelve empirical studies on different facets of language contact in Japan, including...
Tuttle Publishing, 1995. — 173 p. — ISBN: 0804820171. Maido, maido and welcome to Kinki Japan, the land of historic temples, beautiful geiko, majestic mountains, and a vibrant, growing economy. Kindly leave your shoes and Tokyo dialect by the door. Remember to open your mouth when you speak here. If you like, you can roll your r's all the way down Mt. Rokko. The more expression...
Cambridge University Press, 1990. — 411 p. — ISBN 0-521-36070-6; ISBN: 0-521-36918-5. This book surveys the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. No genetic relationship has been established between them, and structurally they differ significantly. Shibatani has therefore divided his study into two independent parts. The first is the most comprehensive study...
PhD University of Hawaii – Manoa, 2008. — 411 p. This dissertation reconstructs the accentual history of the Japonic languages (i.e., the Japanese and Ryukyuan languages). Applying the comparative method, the reconstruction of Proto Japonic (PI) accent is based on modern dialects of Japanese and Ryukyuan and also on the dialect of the Ruiju Myogi-sho (a text written in the 11th...
Brill, 2022. — 357 p. — (Endangered and Lesser-Studied Languages and Dialects, Volume: 1). Japanese is definitely one of the best-known languages in typological literature. For example, typologists often assume that Japanese is a nominative-accusative language. However, it is often overlooked that Japanese, or more precisely, Tokyo Japanese, is just one of various local...
М.: Изд-во МГУ, 1990. — 63 с.
Пособие представляет собой краткий очерк основных существующих диалектов японского языка (их главные грамматические и лексические различия), а также содержит в себе примеры текстов на перевод.
Петроград, 1915. — 35 с. Отдельный оттиск из "Записок Восточного Отделения Императорского Русского Археологического Общества" Том XXIII. Вып. I—II. С. 167—201.
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