The preservation of proto-Japanese tone class 2.5 in the Izumo region explained
- In 1981, Okumura Mitsuo reported that the dialect of IzumoTaisha in western Japan had preserved remnants of the separate tone class 2.5, which until then had only been found in dialects in central Japan. His discovery proved that this tone class had formed part of proto-Japanese, but the phonetic realization in Izumo and in central Japan was totally different. The article offers a reconstruction of the proto-system of the Izumo region, as well as an explanation of how class 2.5 came to be (partly) preserved in Izumo. It is argued that this was through a series of rightward shifts of the /H/ tone. These shifts radiated out from the northwestern part of the region. In the period, when the shifts were active, a contour tone on the second syllable of class 2.5 blocked rightward /H/ tone shift in this class. In this way, the contour tone, although later lost, left a trace in the modern dialects.
| Author: | Elisabeth M. de BoerORCiDGND, Petros LoukareasGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-77340 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1163/19606028-bja10009 |
| Parent Title (French): | Cahiers de linguistique Asie orientale |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| Place of publication: | Leiden |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/12/18 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2020/10/26 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | JapPrehistMigration, , Project ID: 677317 Japanese dialects; Ramsey’s theory; blocking of tone shift; influence of vowels on tone; proto-Japanese; rightward tone shift; tone dots |
| Volume: | 49 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| First Page: | 107 |
| Last Page: | 135 |
| Note: | Projekt JapPrehistMigration, Project ID: 677317 |
| Relation (DC): | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/677317 |
| Institutes/Facilities: | Fakultät für Ostasienwissenschaften / Sektion Sprache und Literatur Japans |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | Sprache / Andere Sprachen |
| OpenAIRE: | OpenAIRE |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International |
