Proto-Japanese

1. Acknowledgements 2. Introduction (by Frellesvig, Bjarke) 3. Abbreviations 4. Part I. Reconstructing the basic phoneme inventory 5. Evidence for seven vowels in proto-Japanese (by Frellesvig, Bjarke) 6. Early Japanese lexical strata and the allophones of /g/ (by Unger, J. Marshall) 7. Part II. Use of dialects in reconstruction 8. Proto-Japanese and the distribution of dialects (by Onishi, Takuichiro) 9. The uses of Ryukyuan in understanding Japanese language history (by Serafim, Leon A.) 10. Part III. Reconstructing accent 11. On the reconstruction of the proto-accentual system of Japanese (by Matsumori, Akiko) 12. A reconstruction of proto-Japanese accent for disyllabic nouns: Focusing on the problem of subclasses (by Shimabukuro, Moriyo) 13. Proto-Japanese beyond the accent system (by Vovin, Alexander) 14. Part IV. Reconstructing morphology and syntax 15. The source of the bigrade conjugation and stem shape in pre-Old Japanese (by Whitman, John) 16. On reconstruction of proto-Japanese and pre-Old Japanese verb inflection (by Frellesvig, Bjarke) 17. The Nominal and Adnominal forms in Old Japanese: Consequences for a reconstruction of pre-Old Japanese syntax (by Wrona, Janick) 18. References 19. Index