Description
Book SynopsisThis Handbook brings together major aspects of Japanese linguistics, presenting overviews, current concerns and future directions of each topic. The areas included are phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology, language acquisition, sentence processing, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics.
Trade Review"The Japanese language has had a prominent position in the development of linguistic theory over the past 30 years. This handbook represents the first significant collection to provide a detailed overview of the major intellectual descriptive and analytic tasks which have occupied researchers working on the language. It will be of great value to linguists who have an interest in Japanese or who wish to see how Japanese evidence bears on many major theoretical issues."
Peter Sells, Stanford University "I found it very useful that each chapter provides references for those who want to investigate a specific topic further; this is a source to consult for anyone who wants to start research on Japanese linguistics." Functions of Language
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. Accent (Shosuke Haraguchi).
2. Mora and Syllable (Haruo Kubozono).
3. The Phonological Lexicon (Junko Itô and Armin Mester).
4. Variationist Sociolinguistics (Junko Hibiya).
5. Scrambling (Naoko Nemoto).
6. Reflexives (Takako Aikawa).
7. Passives (Hiroto Hoshi).
8. Causatives (Shigeru Miyagawa).
9. Quantification and wh-Constructions (Taisuke Nishigauchi).
10. Word Formation (Taro Kageyama).
11. Tense and Aspect (Toshiyuki Ogihara).
12. Lexical Semantics (Natsuko Tsujimura).
13. First Language Acquisition (Yukio Otsu).
14. Sentence Processing (Mineharu Nakayama).
15. Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics (Senko Maynard).
16. Sociolinguistics: Honorifics and Gender Differences (Sachiko Ide and Megumi Yoshida).
Bibliography.
Index.
