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Benjamin Smith Lyman (1835-1920) was an American geologist and
mining engineer who worked for the Japanese government as a foreign
expert in the 1870s. He is famous among linguists for an article
about a set of Japanese morphophonemic alternations known as
rendaku (sometimes translated as "sequential voicing"). Lyman
published this article in 1894, several years after he returned to
the United States, and it contains a version of what linguists
today call Lyman's Law. This book includes a brief biography of
Lyman and explains how an amateur linguist was able to make such a
lasting contribution to the field. It also reproduces Lyman's 1894
article as well as his earlier article on the pronunciation system
of Japanese, each followed by extensive commentary. In addition, it
offers an English translation of a thorough critique of Lyman's
1894 article, published in 1910 by the prominent Japanese linguist
Ogura Shinpei. Lyman's work on rendaku included much more than just
Lyman's Law, and the final chapter of this book assesses all his
proposals from the standpoint of a modern researcher.
Japanese and Korean are typologically quite similar languages, and
the linguistic phenomena of the former often hve counterparts in
the latter. These collections from the annual Japanese/Korean
linguistics conference include essays on the phonology, morphology,
syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis,
prosody, and psycholinguistics of both languages. Such comparative
studies deepen our understanding of both languages and will be a
useful reference to students and scholars in either field.
Japanese and Korean are typologically quite similar languages, and
the linguistic phenomena of the former often hve counterparts in
the latter. These collections from the annual Japanese/Korean
linguistics conference include essays on the phonology, morphology,
syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis,
prosody, and psycholinguistics of both languages. Such comparative
studies deepen our understanding of both languages and will be a
useful reference to students and scholars in either field.
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