An Introduction to the Japonic Languages Grammatical Sketches of Japanese Dialects and Ryukyuan Languages

• Diğer Yazarlar: Shimoji, Michinori (Editör)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Brill 2022
• Konular: Historical & comparative linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Descriptive grammar; Dialect; Endangered language; Historical linguistics; Japanese; Language documentation; Languages of East Asia; Linguistic typology; Ryukyuan
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 varieties of the J...