The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
1. Auflage August 1999
560 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
This 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. This Handbook is for those
who are familiar with the topic at the basic level and wish to
investigate it in more detail, but it also can be used as a
language-specific and typological reference.
* * Written by leading scholars in the field
* Provides a unique and authoritative survey of Japanese
linguistics
* Each chapter presents an overview of the topic and discusses
current concerns and future directions
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.
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