Elisabeth M. de Boer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Elisabeth M. de Boer is involved.

Title

Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History

Elisabeth M. de Boer

This book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tōkyō Japanese is an appropriate basis for describing the suprasegmental phonology of other dialects and earlier stages of Japanese; that the Kyōto-type dialects have… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 365] 2024. viii, 130 pp. | open access

Articles

Boer, Elisabeth M. de 2024 Chapter 7. The role of geography and migration in the branching and spread of the Japonic language family Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019, Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego and Luisa Miceli (eds.), pp. 172–193 | Chapter

This chapter investigates two extremes of the distribution of the Japonic language family: the Ryūkyū Islands in the southwest, and the Tōhoku region in the northeast. Despite the fact that both areas were settled relatively late by speakers of Japonic compared to other areas of Japan, the… read more

Boiko, Melissa, Elisabeth M. de Boer, Christopher Griesenhofer, Petros Loukareas and Masato Aoyama 2024 Chapter 2. Early compound accent in Japanese Tōkyō -type dialects: An unexpected finding Historical Linguistics 2019: Selected papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Canberra, 1–5 July 2019, Evans, Bethwyn, Maria Kristina Gallego and Luisa Miceli (eds.), pp. 36–58 | Chapter

Japanese pitch accent is of great interest to historical linguists due to its relative stability. Japanese dialects can be grouped into accent types and subtypes, and their similarities may in some cases point to historical connections between populations. One common accentual behaviour is found… read more

Boer, Elisabeth M. de 2017 Heinrich, Patrick; Miyara, Shinsho & Shimoji, Michinori (eds.). 2015. Handbook of the Ryukyuan languages: History, structure and use  Studies in Language 41:3, pp. 781–790 | Review