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

Benjamin Smith Lyman, an American geologist and mining engineer, worked in Japan in the 1870s and pursued research on the Japanese language as a sideline. His groundbreaking study of the morphophonemic alternations known as rendaku includes a statem

Timothy J. Vance, NINJAL (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics), Tokyo, Japan.