Re: Old Japanese

On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:13:13PM -0500, Elliott Lash wrote:
>    Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo  writes:
>
> Actually, now that I think of it, are you sure you've got that rule right?
>  Things might have changed strangely since Old Japanese, but it seems to me
>  the first consonant of the second word gets *voiced*, e.g.: *pito-pito >
>  hitobito, *matu-pa > matsuba, *oo-tanuki > oodanuki.
>
>   Sounds interesting, are there any books on Old Japanese grammar
> I've been looking for a really long time, but all I've come up with
> is a book of Basho's haiku in the original.
Unfortunately I don't know of any, but I saw mention of someone named
Shibatani. Is that the author of _The Languages of Japan_ (or whatever)?
That might be a place to start.

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo