Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima

Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 755
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ISBN-10 : 9789004680548
ISBN-13 : 9004680543
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Download or read book Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima written by Aleksandra Jarosz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spoken on Kurima, a miniscule island in the Miyakojima municipality in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, Kurima-Miyako is a South Ryukyuan topolect, a regional variant of the Miyako language. With most fluent speakers aged 80 or older and the island’s depopulation progressing, the topolect of Kurima faces imminent extinction, a reflection of a common pattern in the Ryukyus, whereupon the vernaculars of small islands and isolated remote areas have been facing multifold minorization for decades on the part of the dominant variety/varieties of the area (Shimoji and Hirara in the case of Kurima), Okinawan, and standard Japanese. Responding to the urgent task of producing a comprehensive description while it still has native speakers, the present volume is the first ever attempt at a systemic presentation of the Kurima topolect in any language. It also uses comparative evidence from Ryukyuan and Mainland Japonic languages to provide new proto-language reconstructions and offer insights into the history of Japonic languages.


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