Bjarke Frellesvig

List of John Benjamins publications in which Bjarke Frellesvig is involved.

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Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects

Edited by Bjarke Frellesvig and John Whitman

Proto-Japanese is the reconstructed language stage from which all later varieties of Japanese, including Ryukyuan, descend. It has been studied both as an end in itself (as the genetic code of the Japanese language) and as part of endeavors to clarify the genetic affiliation of Japanese. Based on… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 294] 2008. vii, 229 pp.

Frellesvig, Bjarke 2019 From preverbal to postverbal in the early history of Japanese Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change: Studies in honor of Henning Andersen, Heltoft, Lars, Iván Igartua, Brian D. Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 233–251 | Chapter

Old Japanese (largely 8th century AD; “OJ”) is, like Middle and Modern Japanese, a typical SOV language and also shares with them a complex predicate construction consisting of two adjacent verbs, V1 V2, of which V2 has some grammatical function, (i). However, OJ in addition has a complex… read more

Frellesvig, Bjarke, Stephen W. Horn and Yuko Yanagida 2015 Differential Object Marking in Old Japanese: A corpus-based study Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013, Haug, Dag T.T. (ed.), pp. 195–212 | Article

Within the past few decades, various proposals have been made about marking of objects in Old Japanese (e.g., Matsunaga 1983, Motohashi 1989, Yanagida 2006, Kuroda 2008, Yanagida & Whitman 2009, Wrona & Frellesvig 2010, Kinsui 2011, Miyagawa 2012), but there is still no consensus about the exact… read more

Frellesvig, Bjarke 2008 On reconstruction of proto-Japanese and pre-Old Japanese verb inflection Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects, Frellesvig, Bjarke and John Whitman (eds.), pp. 175–192 | Article

Frellesvig, Bjarke and John Whitman 2008 Evidence for seven vowels in proto-Japanese Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects, Frellesvig, Bjarke and John Whitman (eds.), pp. 15–41 | Article

Frellesvig, Bjarke and John Whitman 2008 Introduction Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects, Frellesvig, Bjarke and John Whitman (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Miscellaneous

Frellesvig, Bjarke 2000 Recent Changes in the Tonology of Kyoto Japanese Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 1: General issues and non-Germanic Languages., Smith, John Charles and Delia Bentley (eds.), pp. 111–124 | Article