Irregular Phonological Marking of Japanese Compounds : Benjamin Smith Lyman’s Pioneering Research on Rendaku

Benjamin Smith Lyman (1835–1920) was an American geologist and mining engineer who worked for the Japanese government as a foreign expert in the 1870s. He is famous among linguists for an article about a set of Japanese morphophonemic alternations known as rendaku (sometimes translated as “sequentia...

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Main Author:	Timothy J. Vance
Format:	Book
Published:	De Gruyter Mouton 2022
Subjects:	Sequence (Linguistics) Japanese language > Compound words Japanese language > Phonology Japanese language > Morphophonemics
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