How and when was Japan settled by speakers of Japanese? Exploring the clues to Japanese prehistory preserved in old dialect divisions

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (3)

The preservation of proto-Japanese tone class 2.5 in the Izumo region explained

Author(s): Elisabeth M. DE BOER, Petros LOUKAREAS
Published in: Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 49/2, 2020, Page(s) 107-135, ISSN 0153-3320
Publisher: Editions de I'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
DOI: 10.1163/19606028-bja10009

Japan considered from the hypothesis of farmer/language spread

Author(s): Elisabeth de Boer, Melinda A. Yang, Aileen Kawagoe, Gina L. Barnes
Published in: Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, 2020, Page(s) 1-20, ISSN 2513-843X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2020.7

Universals of tone rules and diachronic change in Japanese

Author(s): Elisabeth M. de Boer
Published in: Journal of Asian and African Studies, 94, 2017, Page(s) 217-242, ISSN 0021-9096
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.11588/xarep.00004161

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Handbook of the Ryukyuan languages: History, structure and use (review article)

Author(s): Elisabeth M. de Boer
Published in: Studies in Language, 41-3, 2017, Page(s) 781-790, ISSN 0378-4177
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.11588/xarep.00004162