Alexander Francis-Ratte
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alexander Francis-Ratte is involved.
Articles
2021 On the etymology of the Japanese plural suffix and its possible connection to Korean Asian Languages and Linguistics 2:1, pp. 24–35 | Article
This paper presents an etymological analysis of the Japanese plural suffix tachi, Old Japanese tati. I propose that tati originates from a grammaticalization of an earlier Pre-Old Japanese phonological form *totwi, the non-bound reflex of which is the Old Japanese quasi-collective marker dwoti… read more
2017 Chapter 4. Lexical recycling as a lens onto shared Japano-Koreanic agriculture Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine and Alexander Savelyev (eds.), pp. 75–92 | Chapter
Despite the existence of strong cognates in other realms of basic vocabulary, it remains unclear why Korean and Japanese share so few words for grain and agriculture. This paper proposes that pre-rice vocabulary has undergone a process of lexical recycling in Korean to refer to later… read more