Synchrony and Diachrony of Okinawan Kakari Musubi in Comparative Perspective with Premodern Japanese.

Intro -- Synchrony and Diachrony of Okinawan Kakari Musubi in Comparative Perspective With Premodern Japanese -- Copyright -- Table of contents -- Preface -- List of abbreviations and Conventions -- 1 Introduction -- 1 Corpora used in this book -- 2 Overview of kakari musubi (= KM) -- 3 Issues in kakari musubi in Japanese -- 4 Goals of this study -- 5 Organization of the subsequent chapters -- 2 Question-forming Kakari Musubi -- 1 OJ |ka| and |ya| -- 1.1 Self-inquiry vs. other-inquiry -- 1.2 Uncertainty vs. Certainty (Ohno's account) -- 1.3 Inferential auxiliaries and two varieties of |ka|-type KM -- 1.4 Scope, type (wh vs. yes/no), and conjugational forms of questions -- 1.5 Historical development of |ka| and |ya| -- 2 Okinawan |ga| and |yi| -- 2.1 Overview -- 2.2 Our analysis -- 3 Reconstructing the PJ etymon for |ka| &amp -- |ga| -- 3.1 The same source, or separate developments? -- 3.2 The Proto-Japonic forms -- 3.3 Development to OJ -- 3.4 Development to OOk -- 4 Reconstructing the PJ etyma for |ya| &amp -- |yi| -- 4.1 The same source, or different developments? -- 4.2 The Proto-Japonic form -- 4.3 Development to OJ -- 4.4 Development to OOk -- 5 Summary -- 3 Assertion-Forming Kakari Musubi -- 1 OJ |zo|, |namu|, and |koso| -- 1.1 OJ |zo|, |namu|, and |koso| in comparative perspective -- 1.2 Demise of Japanese KM with |zo|, |namu|, and |koso| -- 2 Ok |do| and |su| in comparative perspective -- 2.1 Ok |do| -- 2.2 Ok |su| -- 2.3 Parallel functional differences: Ok |do|/|su| vs. OJ |zo|/|koso| -- 2.4 On new issues -- 2.5 On k'usyee of Nakijin dialect -- 3 Reconstructing the PJ form for OJ |zo| and OOk |do| -- 3.1 Establishing common genetic origin based on function,musubi conjugational form, and phonological correspondences -- 3.2 The Proto-Japonic form -- 3.3 Development to OJ -- 3.4 Development to OOk.

4 Reconstructing the PJ forms for OJ kösö and Pre- OOK *swo -- 4.1 Establishing common genetic origin based on function,musubi conjugational form, and phonological correspondences -- 4.2 The PJ forms -- 4.2.1 Reconstruction of the IZ -- 4.2.2 Reconstruction of the Proto-Ryukyuan KP *-swo from OOk (OS) -si ~ -syu -- 4.2.3 Reconstruction of Proto- Japonic form *kö#swo -- 4.3 Development to OJ -- 4.4 Development to OOk -- 5 On OJ |namu| and its non-existence in OOk -- 6 Summary -- 4 Different Developments of Kakari Musubi in Japanese and okinawan -- 1 KM constructions in the history of Japanese -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Hypotheses pertaining to causes of demise -- 1.3 After KM: Functional continuity -- 2 KM constructions in the history of Okinawan -- 2.1 Overview -- 2.2 Hypotheses concerning preservation and demise of Ok KM -- 2.2.1 |do| type KM and |ga| type KM -- 2.2.2 |su| type KM -- 2.3 Our account -- 2.4 Revisiting the demise of Japanese KM with insight from Okinawan -- 3 W. Yamaguchi and Kyushu dialects in comparative perspective with Ok |su| -- 3.1 Overview -- 3.2 Nominalizers in W. Yamaguchi and Kyushu -- 3.3 The progenitor of the three nominalizers -- 3.4 Why -so/-to? Why not genitives? -- 4 Japanese |noda| and Ok KM and related constructions -- 4.1 Developmental path of |noda| -- 4.2 NOk -syi + yaN, a candidate for the equivalent to Jp |noda| -- 4.3 |noda|, OJ |zo|, and Ok |do| with regard to relationships of scope and function -- 5 Summary -- 5 KM in theoretical perspective -- 1 Four major hypotheses -- 1.1 Inversion hypothesis -- 1.2 Insertion hypothesis -- 1.3 Nomura's biclausal hypothesis -- 1.4 Quinn's biclausal hypothesis -- 2 The four major hypotheses in light of Ok KM -- 2.1 Arguments against inversion hypothesis -- 2.2 Evaluating the insertion hypothesis -- 2.3 Evaluating Nomura's biclausal hypothesis -- 2.4 Evaluating Quinn's hypothesis.

3 A typology of KM -- 3.1 Origins of KPs -- 3.2 Kakari particles and their respective functions -- 3.3 Demonstrative systems -- 3.3.1 OJ demonstrative system -- 3.3.2 OOk Demonstrative System -- 3.4 Conjugational forms -- 3.4.1 Realis vs. irrealis -- 3.4.2 Non-inferential RT vs. inferential RT -- 3.4.3 Inferential RT (-amu) vs. inferential IZ (-amey) in OJ -- 3.4.4 Inferential RT (-a) vs. inferential IZ (-ami) in OOk -- 4 KP particles and their respective functions: An iconicity-based account -- 4.1 Correspondences of KP origin, form, function, and meaning -- 4.2 An iconicity-based account -- 5 Summary -- 6 Conclusion and Prospects -- References -- Index.

In Synchrony and Diachrony of Okinawan and Premodern Japanese Kakari Musubi, Rumiko Shinzato and Leon A. Serafim offer reconstructions, comparative-functional analyses, and evaluations of grammaticalization-based hypotheses on kakari musubi's origin, development, and demise.

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