Accent on Predicates in the Kyoto Dialect in the Heian Era(<Feature Articles>Historical Studies of Japanese Phonology)

Abstract

In this paper, I describe the accent on predicates in the Kyoto dialect in the Heian era. This paper focuses on verbs with affixes which have not been discussed comprehensively in previous studies. By including them, I attempt to describe all the pitch patterns of predicates. The accent on predicates in this era are not very useful for distinguishing between predicate forms. They have mainly a delimitative function.