Reading List for Japanese Historical Linguistics

Rev. 12/17/2007

Historical Jpn Linguistics

IV. Japanese Historical Linguistics

Reading List

Required of MA students

**Arisaka, Hideyo 1955. Jōdai on’in kō. Sanseidō

**Arisaka, Hideyo 1957. Kokugo on’inshi no kenkyū. Sanseidō.

**Bentley, John R. 2001a. “The Origin of the Man’yōgana.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 64.1: 59-73.

**Bentley, John R. 2002. ‘The spelling of /MO/ in Old Japanese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 11.4: 349-74.

**Campbell, Lyle 2001. Historical Linguistics. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press.

**Frellesvig, Bjarke 2003. ‘Pre-Old Japanese Verbal Morphology.’ Paper presented at the workshop on Proto-Japanese, XIVth ICKL, Copenhagen.

**Frellesvig, Bjarke (forthcoming). ‘The verb morphology of Old Japanese.’ Proceedings of the Kōbe 2004 Workshop on the History and Structure of Japanese.

**Hashimoto, Shinkichi 1950. Kokugo on’in no hensen. In: Kokugo on”in no kenkyū. Iwanami (pp. 51-103).

**Hino, Sukenari 2003. “Nihon sogo no boin taikei — Jōdai Azuma hōgen shiryō ni yoru saikō.” In: Vovin, Alexander and Osada, Toshiki (eds.) Nihongo keitōron no genzai, Kyoto: Nichibunken, pp. 187-206.

**Ikeda, Tadashi 1975. Classical Japanese Grammar Illustrated with Texts, Tokyo: Tōhō Gakkai.

**Lange, Roland A. 1973. The phonology of eight-century Japanese. Sophia U Press.

**Mabuchi Kazuo 1976. Jōdai no kotoba. Shibundō.

**Martin, Samuel E. 1966. “Lexical evidence relating Korean to Japanese.” Language 42: 185-251.

**Martin, Samuel E. 1987. The Japanese Language Through Time, New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

**Martin, Samuel E. 1990. "Morphological clues to the relationship of Japanese and Korean," Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology, ed. by Philip Baldi, Berlin--New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 483--509.

**Martin, Samuel E. 1991. "Recent Research on the Relationships of Japanese and Korean." Sprung from Some Common Source. ed. by Sydney M. Lamb and E. Douglas Mitchell. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 269--292.

**Miyake, Marc H. 2003. Old Japanese: A Ponetic reconstruction. London and New York: Routledge.

**Okimori, Takuya 1988. Nihongo shi. Ōfūsha.

**Osada, Toshiki 2003. “Nihongo keitōron wa naze yaranaku natta no ka?” In: Vovin, Alexander and Osada, Toshiki (eds.) Nihongo keitōron no genzai, Kyoto: Nichibunken, pp. 373-418.

**Saeki, Umetomo (1959) Nara jidai no kokugo. Tokyo: Sanseidō. (original edition: 1950).

**Seeley, Christopher 1991. A history of writing in Japan. Leiden: Brill 1991.

**Serafim, Leon 2003. “When and from where did the Japonic language entered the Ryukyus?” In: Vovin, Alexander and Osada, Toshiki (eds.) Nihongo keitōron no genzai, Kyoto: Nichibunken, pp. 463-476.

**Serafim, Leon & Shinzato, Rumiko 2005. ‘On the Old Japanese Kakari (Focus) Particle kösö: Its Origin and Structure.’ Gengo kenkyū 127: 1-49.

**Shirafuji, N. (1987) Nara jidai no kokugo, Tokyo: Tōkyōdō.

**Thorpe, Maner. 1983. Ryūkyūan Language History. Ph.D. dissertation, USC.

**Unger, J. Marshall 1975. Studies in early Japanese morphophonemics. Yale U Ph.D. dissertation.

**Vovin, Alexander 1997. "On the origin of register in Japanese" Japanese/Korean linguistics volume 6: 113-133.

**Vovin, Alexander 2000. ‘Pre-Hankul Materials, Koreo-Japonic, and Altaic.’ Korean Studies 24: 142-55.

**Vovin, Alexander 2001. ‘North East Asian historical-comparative linguistics on the threshold of the third millennium.’ Diachronica XVIII.1: 93-137.

**Vovin, Alexander 2003. A Reference Grammar of Classical Japanese Prose. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon.

**Vovin, Alexander 2005a. A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese. Part 1: Phonology, Script, Lexicon, and Nominals. Folkestone: Global Oriental.

**Vovin, Alexander 2005b. “The End of the Altaic Controversy.” Central Asiatic Journal 49.1: 71-132.

**Vovin, Alexander 2008a (fortcoming). A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese. Part 2: Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Particles, Conjunctions, Postpositions, Indices. Folkestone: Global Oriental.

**Vovin, Alexander 2008b (forthcoming). Koreo-Japonica. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

**Whitman, John B. 1985. A phonological basis for comparison of Japanese and Korean. Harvard U PhD dissertation.

**Yamada, Yoshio 1954 (first edition 1912). Nara chō bunpō shi. Tokyo: Hōbunkan.

**Yamada, Yoshio (1952) (first edition 1913). Heian chō bunpō], Tokyo: Tōkyō hōbunkan.

Required of PhD students

*Bentley, John R. 2001b. A Descriptive Grammar of Early Old Japanese Prose. Leiden: Brill.

*Frellesvig, Bjarke (1999). "A common Korean and Japanese copula," Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 10.1:1-35.

*Fukuda, Yoshisuke (1965) Nara jidai Azuma hōgen no kenkyū. Tōkyō: Kazama shoin.

*Hattori, Shirō 1978-79. “Nihon no sogo.” Gengo 1978-79 rensai 1-22.

*Hōjō, Tadao (1966) Jōdai Azuma hōgen no kenkyū. Tōkyō: Nihon gakujutsu shinkō kai.

*Mabuchi, Kazuo 1971. Kokugo on’inron. Kasama shoin.

*Mabuchi Kazuo 1999. Jōdai Nihongo no sugata [The appearance of the Old Japanese Language]. Tokyo: Musashino shoin.

*Mizushima, Yoshiharu 1984a. Man’yōshū Azuma uta honbun kenkyū narabi ni sōsakuin [Indexes to and research on the original text of Eastern poems in the ‘Man’yōshū’]. Tokyo: Kasama shoin.

*Mizushima 1996. Man’yōshū Azuma uta sakimori uta [Eastern poems and border guards poems from the Man’yōshū]. Revised and enlarged edition. Tokyo: Kasama shoin. Original edition: 1972.

*Mizushima 2003. Man’yōshū Sakimori uta zenchūshaku [A complete commentary on the Man’yōshu border guards poems]. Tokyo: Kasama shoin.

*Mizushima, Yoshiharu 1984b. Man'yōshū Azuma uta no kokugogakuteki kenkyū. Tōkyō: Kasama shoin.

*Mori, Hiromichi 1991. Kodai no on'in to Nihonshoki no seiritsu. Tōkyō: Daishūkan.

*Russell, Kerri 2003. ‘Contraction and Monophthongization in Old Japanese. In: Nihongo keitōron no genzai, Vovin, Alexander and Osada, Toshiki (eds.). Nichibunken sōsho 31: 511-538. Kyoto: International Research Center for the Japanese Studies.

*Russell, Kerri 2005. A Reconstruction and Morphophonemic Analysis of Proto-Japonic

*Serafim, L.A. (1994) "A modification of the Whitman proto-Koreo-Japonic vocalic hypothesis," Korean Linguistics 8:181--205.

*Takayama, Michiaki 1981. ‘Gen’on seichō kara mita Nihonshoki ongana hyōki shiron [A hypothesis regarding ongana spellings in the ‘Nihonshoki’ seen from the point of view of original tones].’ Gobun Kenkyū 51.13-20.

*Takayama, Michiaki 1983. ‘Nihonshoki no ongana to sono gen’on seichō ni tsuite [About ongana in the ‘Nihonshoki’ and its original tones].’ Kindaichi Haruhiko hakase koki kinen ronbunshū, vol. 1: 45-69.

*Tokieda, Motoki 1954. Nihon bunpō: bungo hen [A Japanese grammar: Classical written language], Tokyo: Iwanami.

*Vovin, Alexander 1994. "Is Japanese related to Austronesian?", Oceanic Linguistics 33.2: 369-390.

Others

Mochizuki, Ikuko (ed.) 1974. Ruiju myōgishō [A compendium of Japanese words arranged by categories], Tokyo: Kasama shoin.

Ōno, S., Nakada N., Doi T., Yoshida S., Matsumura A. (1965) Nihongo no rekishi [A history of the Japanese language], Tokyo: Shibundō.

Takeuchi, L. (1987) A study of Classical Japanese tense and aspect, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.

Thomason, Sarah G. and Terrence Kaufmann 1988. Language contact, creolization and genetic linguistics. Berkeley: UBC press.

Yamaguchi, Y. (1971) "Kodai Nihongo ni okeru boin datsuraku genshō ni tsuite " Kokugogaku 85: 68--91.