Japanese

Author

Shoichi Iwasaki | University of California, Los Angeles

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Japanese: Revised edition , Shoichi Iwasaki (2013)

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Japanese ranks as the sixth language of the world with more than 125 million speakers in the island state of Japan. Its genetic relation has been a topic of heated discussion, but Altaic and Austronesian languages appear to have contributed to the early formation of this language. It has a long written tradition, which goes back to texts from the eighth century AD. The modern writing system employs a mixture of Chinese characters and two sets of syllabary developed from the Chinese characters.

This book consists of fourteen chapters covering the phonology, morphology, the writing system, grammatical constructions, and discourse and pragmatic phenomena of Japanese.

It provides researchers with a useful typological reference and students of Japanese with a theory-neutral introduction to current linguistic research issues.

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 5] 2002. xx, 360 pp.

Publishing status: Obsolete

https://doi.org/10.1075/loall.5

Table of Contents

Preface | p. xiii

Romanization and text presentation | p. xv

List of abbreviations | p. xix

Map — Japan and surrounding areas | p. xx

1. Overview | pp. 1–10

2. Writing system | pp. 11–16

3. Sounds | pp. 17–28

4. Words | pp. 29–56

5. Morphology | pp. 57–81

6. Argument structures | pp. 83–104

7. Tense and aspect | pp. 105–124

8. Grammatical constructions | pp. 125–173

9. Noun phrase structures | pp. 175–193

10. Embedding | pp. 195–216

11. Information structure and the sentence form | pp. 217–246

12. Discourse and grammar | pp. 247–274

13. Pragmatics and grammar | pp. 275–304

14. Sample texts | pp. 305–332

Notes | pp. 333–342

Index | pp. 351–360

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Erratum

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Subjects

Linguistics

Japanese linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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ONIX 2.1

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