Author, "The Language of the Old-Okinawan Omoro Soshi: Reference Grammar, with Textual Selections, Bilingual Edition"
English, 日本語 | 2021 | ISBN: 900441469X | 425 pages | PDF | 7 MB
English, 日本語 | 2021 | ISBN: 900441469X | 425 pages | PDF | 7 MB
"The Omoro Såoshi (1531-1623) is an indispensable resource for historical linguistic comparison of Old Okinawan with other Ryukyuan languages and Old Japanese. Leon A Serafim and Rumiko Shinzato offer a reference grammar, including detailed phonological analyses, of the otherwise opaque and dense poetic/religious language of the Omoro Såoshi. Meshing Western linguistic insight with existing literary/linguistic work in Ryukyuan studies, and incorporating their own research on Modern Okinawan, the authors offer a grammar and phonology of the Omoro language, with selected (excerpts of) songs grammatically analyzed, phonologically reconstructed, translated, and annotated"–