Abstract
This paper follows on from an earlier paper (Kumar and Rose 2000) in which forty-one pairs of words with CVCVC structure from Old Japanese and Old Javanese were compared, resulting in the first
schedule of replicable segmental correspondences between Old
Japanese and any putatively related language. Phonological correspondences mapped unidirectionally from Old Javanese to Old
Japanese. The semantic fields represented in this lexicon
corresponded to innovations which are known to have been
introduced in the Yayoi period (rice farming, metallurgy comprising bronze and iron, cloth weaving, particular forms of architecture, and a
social hierarchy). The present paper moves on from borrowing of
lexicon to morphosyntactic aspects of the contact. These seem to be
significant in a number of fields. The paper presents a preliminary study of one of these, i.e. the Old Japanese ‘humble auxiliaries’ and
their Old Javanese derivations. It also provides the historical context
of this linguistic contact between (an antecedent of) Old Javanese and
(an antecedent of) Old Japanese.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Quantitative approaches to problems in linguistics: Studies in honour of Phil Rose |
Editors | Cathryn Donohue, Shunichi Ishihara and William Steed |
Place of Publication | Munich, Germany |
Publisher | Lincom Europa |
Pages | 241-263 |
Edition | 1st |
ISBN (Print) | 9783862883844 |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |