Reconciling Comparative and Internal Reconstruction: The Case of Old Japanese /ti, ri, ni/  

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Unger, J. Marshall

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 76 no. 3 (1999), page 655-681.
Fulltext: Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 655-681.pdf (8.02MB)

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Some Korean-Japanese comparisons involving Japanese coronals complicate the internal recon- struction of pre-Old Japanese. Post-OJ verb forms that end uniformly in, for example, ki have distinct OJ final syllables (ki ? kwi) according to the form or paradigm of the verb. This is not true for OJ syllables like ti, but scholars have assumed that pre-OJ *ti #) *twi, etc., were distributed in corresponding verb forms in the same way as OJ ki # kwi, etc. Whitman, however, has introduced K-J etymologies requiring that pre-OJ *ti > si, *ri and *ni > i, and hence that ALL OJ ti < *twi, etc. These conflicting results can be resolved if other pre-OJ sound changes supported by Korean etymologies are properly integrated into the internal reconstruction of Japanese verb paradigms.

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