Reconciling Comparative and Internal Reconstruction
The Case of Old Japanese /ti, ri, ni
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2895116 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Marshall Unger (0000-0002-9839-441X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 655 |
| Publication date | 2000-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/417138 |
| OpenAlex | W2063076655 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
Some Korean-Japanese comparisons involving Japanese coronals complicate the internal reconstruction of pre-Old Japanese. Post-OJ verb forms that end uniformly in, for example, ki have distinct OJ final syllables ( ki ≠ kwi ) according to the form or paradigm of the verb. This is not true for OJ syllables like ti , but scholars have assumed that pre-OJ * ti ≠ * twi , etc., were distributed in corresponding verb forms in the same way as OJ ki ≠ kwi , etc. Whitman, however, has introduced K-J etymologies requiring that pre-OJ * ti > si , * ri and * ni > i , and hence that all OJ ti < * twi , etc. These conflicting results can be resolved if other pre-OJ sound changes supported by Korean etymologies are properly integrated into the internal reconstruction of Japanese verb paradigms
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
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| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |