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Publication details [#20556]

Loveday, Leo. 1987. Sino-Japanese language contact: A case for historical sociolinguistics. In Tannen, Deborah F. Conversational style. In : 251–267. : 579–608.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

language contact | meaning | orthography | sound | syntax1

Language as a subject

Chinese | Japanese

Annotation

A survey and analysis of the sociolinguistic nature of historical and recent language contact between Japanese and Chinese, from the perspective of the former. Focus is on the phonological, syntactic and semantic levels, and on ortography.