Anthony E. Backhouse
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anthony E. Backhouse plays a role.
Articles
2021 How to talk about smell in Japanese The Linguistics of Olfaction: Typological and Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Diversity, Jędrzejowski, Łukasz and Przemysław Staniewski (eds.), pp. 221–250 | Chapter
This chapter presents a corpus-informed description of olfactory language in Japanese, centering on everyday speech. Core smell vocabulary takes in the verbs kagu and niou, the nouns nioi and kaori, and the adjective kusai, and exhibits the clear presence of evaluation. Additional basic resources… read more
2000 Learning the Japanese pitch accent: Verbs Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 23:1, pp. 123–137 | Article
Teaching and reference materials of Japanese frequently neglect the accentual features of words, and accentual distinctions have been claimed to carry a low functional load in the language. The aim of this article is to present evidence for the communicative importance of the pitch accent, and to… read more