Language Change in East Asia

by McAuley,T. E.

• ISBN13: 9780700713776
• ISBN10: 0700713778
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-12
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
A Note on Transcription
Introduction	p. 1
Changing Attitudes: Dialects versus the Standard Language in Japan	p. 7
Change in Korean Honorifics Reflecting Social Change	p. 27
The Changing Use of Honorifics in Japanese Literary Texts	p. 47
Are Japanese Women Less Feminine Now? A Study of Sentence-Final Forms in Japanese Women's Conversation	p. 70
Multilingualism in Palau: Language Contact with Japanese and English	p. 87
The Asukaike Word List Slat and Pre-Sino-Japanese Phonology	p. 143
Some Returned Loans: Japanese Loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin	p. 161
Script 'Borrowing', Cultural Influence and the Development of the Written Vernacular in East Asia	p. 180
Principles of Hentai Kanhun Word Order: Evidence from the Kojiki	p. 207
On the Decline of Tense and Aspect in Japanese: Its Theoretical Implications	p. 233
The Grammaticalization of Formal Nouns and Nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean	p. 250
Flapping and Language Change in East Asia	p. 284
Index	p. 298
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