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Shinmura Izuru Award しんむらいずるしょう

Edition 40 (2021)

LinguisticsJapanese Linguistics

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Shinichiro Tawata たわだ しんいちろう award

A substantial study that traces the historical development of Okinawan verb morphology across materials written in hangul, kanji, kana, and the Latin alphabet. By assembling examples from each era, it clarifies how conjugation types and forms took shape.

It uncovers the historical change of Okinawan verb forms through a vast body of sources.

1380 pages
Okinawan languageJapanese linguisticshistorical linguisticsverb morphologyRyukyuan dialects