Brent De Chene

Biographic Data

ID742262
NAMEBrent De Chene
GIVEN NAMESBrent
FAMILY NAMEDe Chene
SIGNATUREDE CHENE B
AFFILIATIONSWaseda University (Emeritus) , Tokyo , Japan
ORCID0000-0001-9946-5972
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Stem inalterability in Japonic

    Brent De CheneARTICLEJournal of Japanese Linguistics2025References: 15

    Three case studies from Japanese and Ryukyuan are presented in support of the generalization that, in the course of grammaticalization of an innovative verbal construction, vowel-stem forms will resist reductive phonological processes that apply to consonant-stem forms. Given that the constructions of the case studies are based on the verbal Ren’yookei , this differential susceptibility to phonological reduction is attributed to the fact that vow…

  • Syntactic and lexical -ase- are distinct suffixes

    Brent De CheneARTICLEJournal of Japanese Linguistics2022

    In addition to the syntactic (inflectional) causative suffix -(s)ase- , Japanese displays a lexical (derivational) causative suffix -(a)se- ( okur-ase- ‘delay’, no-se- ‘place on’) whose a- zero alternation is general in the stem-level phonology. Because the UR of syntactic -(s)ase- must include the s of its postvocalic alternant, the two suffixes necessarily have distinct phonological forms; there is thus no way to treat them as “high attachment”…

  • On the (ir)regularity of Dunan verbal morphophonology

    Brent De CheneARTICLEJournal of Japanese Linguistics2020

    Against claims of Yamada, Pellard, and Shimoji (Yamada, Masahiro, Thomas Pellard & Michinori Shimoji. 2015. Dunan grammar (Yonaguni Ryukyuan). In Patrick Heinrich, Shinshō Miyara & Michinori Shimoji (eds.), Handbook of the Ryukyuan languages , 449–478. Berlin: de Gruyter and Pellard, Thomas & Masahiro Yamada. 2017. Verb morphology and conjugation classes in Dunan (Yonaguni). In Ferenc Kiefer, James P. Blevins & Huba Bartos (eds.), Perspectives on…

  • R -Epenthesis and the bigrade alternation

    Open AccessBrent De CheneARTICLEDiachronica2020

    For Japanese verbal suffixes sensitive to the C/V status of the stem-final segment, C-stem alternants are underlying, and regular V-stem alternants result from intervocalic epenthesis of r at stem boundary ( de Chene 2016 ). This “Analysis A” entails that any V-stem suffix not consisting of r plus its C-stem counterpart is irregular and subject to replacement. While the r- Epenthesis rule of Analysis A is naturally understood as a generalization …

  • Description and explanation in morphophonology

    Open AccessBrent De CheneARTICLEJournal of East Asian Linguistics2016

  • Studies in Stress and Accent

    Brent De Chene, Larry M HymanARTICLELanguage1981

  • Compensatory Lengthening

    Brent De Chene, Stephen R Anderson et al.ARTICLELanguage1979Cited by: 7

    The class of phonetic changes in which the loss of a consonant is accompanied by the development of distinctive length in a nearby vowel has traditionally been designated by the term ‘compensatory lengthening’. We first discard cases in which the development of length and the loss of a consonant are in fact independent phenomena, and then analyse remaining examples. It is argued that such changes always involve loss of a consonant immediately adj…

  • A Proto-Algonquian Dictionary

    Brent De Chene, George F AubinARTICLELanguage1977

  • Papers of the Sixth Algonquian Conference, 1974

    Brent De Chene, William CowanARTICLELanguage1977