Full Description
This book adopts a wide focus on the range of East Asian languages, in both their pre-modern and modern forms, within the specific topic area of language change. It contains sections on dialect studies, contact linguistics, socio-linguistics and syntax/phonology and deals with all three major languages of East Asia: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Individual chapters cover pre-Sino-Japanese phonology, nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean; Japanese loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin; changes in Korean honorifics; the tense and aspect system of Japanese; and language policy in Japan. The book will be of interest to linguists working on East Asian languages, and will be of value to a range of general linguists working in comparative or historical linguistics, socio-linguistics, language typology and language contact.
Contents
Introduction I DIALECT STUDIES Chapter One Changing Attitudes: Dialects versus the Standard Language in Japan II SOCIOLINGUISTICS Chapter Two Change in Korean Honorifics Reflecting Social Change The Changing Use of Honorifics in Japanese Literary Texts Chapter Four Are Japanese Women Less Feminine Now? A Study of Sentence-Final Forms in Japanese Women's Conversation III CONTACT LINGUISTICS Chapter Five Multilingualism in Palau: Language Contact with Japanese and English Chapter Six The Asukaike Word List Slat and Pre-Sino-Japanese Phonology Chapter Seven Some Returned Loans: Japanese Loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin Chapter Eight Script 'Borrowing', Cultural Influence and the Development of the Written Vernacular in East Asia IV GRAMMAR AND PHONOLOGY Chapter Nine Principles of Hentai Kanhun Word Order: Evidence from the Kojiki Chapter Eleven The Grammaticalization of Formal Nouns and Nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean Chapter Twelve Flapping and Language Change in East Asia
