Handbook of Historical Japanese Linguistics

In memoriam
Preface
Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics • Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama
Contents
Contributors
Introduction • Bjarke Frellesvig and Satoshi Kinsui
Part I: Prehistory and reconstruction
	1 Reconstruction of Japonic and para-Japonic based on external sources • Alexander Vovin
	2 Ryukyuan and the reconstruction of proto-Japanese-Ryukyuan • Thomas Pellard
	3 Towards the prosodic reconstruction of proto-Japanese-Ryukyuan • Akiko Matsumori
Part II: Phonology
	4 Reconstruction of Old Japanese phonology • Teruhiro Hayata
	5 Old Japanese writing and phonology • J. Marshall Unger
	6 Late Middle Japanese phonology, based on Korean sources • Sven Osterkamp
	7 Late Middle Japanese phonology as reflected in early Japanese Christian documents • Masayuki Toyoshima
	8 Sino-Japanese • Marc Hideo Miyake
	9 The Ramsey hypothesis • Elisabeth M. de Boer
Part III: Grammar
	10 Differential argument marking in Old Japanese: Morphology, semantics, and syntax • Yuko Yanagida
	11 The syntax and morphology of Early Middle Japanese • Yoshiyuki Takayama
	12 Late Middle Japanese grammar • Hirofumi Aoki
	13 The historical changes in the case marking system of Japanese • Takashi Nomura
	14 Voicings of kakari-musubi: Shifting from cleft construction to referential predicate • Charles J. Quinn
	15 Loss of wh-movement • Akira Watanabe
	16 Development of adverbial particles • Tomohide Kinuhata
	17 The history of demonstratives • Tomoko Okazaki
	18 Vision and the verbs of visual perception in Man’yōshū: From mirativity to ‘mitate’ • Yoshihiko Ikegami
Part IV: Lexicon, Materials and Kanbun
	19 The history of basic vocabulary in Japanese • John R. Bentley
	20 The Japanese lexicon as reflected in Christian materials • Toru Maruyama
	21 What mokkan (wooden documents) can tell us about ancient Japanese language • Takashi Inukai
	22 Early Japanese dictionaries • Shōju Ikeda
	23 Kunten texts of Buddhist provenance (butten 仏典): Their characteristics and actuality • Masayuki Tsukimoto
	24 Kunten texts of secular Chinese origin (kanseki 漢籍) • Teiji Kosukegawa
	25 Japanized written Chinese: Its features and contribution to the history of the Japanese language • Shingo Yamamoto
	26 Early modern kanbun and kanbun-kundoku • Fumitoshi Saito
	27 The influence of kanbun-kundoku vocabulary on the Japanese language • Valerio Luigi Alberizzi
Index