Japanese
Revised edition
2nd Edition
Published on 23. January 2013
XXI, 383 pages
978-90-272-7314-7 (ISBN)
Description
Japanese ranks as the ninth most widely spoken language of the world with more than 127 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. Japanese has a long written tradition, which goes back to texts from the eighth century CE. The modern writing system employs a mixture of Chinese characters and two sets of syllabary indigenously developed based on the Chinese characters.
This book consists of sixteen chapters covering the phonology, morphology, writing system, tense and aspect systems, basic argument structure, 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.
This book consists of sixteen chapters covering the phonology, morphology, writing system, tense and aspect systems, basic argument structure, 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.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
+ index
File size
5,63 MB
ISBN-13
978-90-272-7314-7 (9789027273147)
DOI
10.1075/loall.17
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Content
Preface
Romanization and text presentation
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1. Overview
Chapter 2. Writing system
Chapter 3. Sounds
Chapter 4. Words
Chapter 5. Morphology
Chapter 6. Argument structures
Chapter 7. Tense and aspect
Chapter 8. Grammatical constructions
Chapter 9. Noun phrase structures
Chapter 10. Quotation and complementation
Chapter 11. Information structure and the sentence form
Chapter 12. Clause combining
Chapter 13. Reference system in discourse
Chapter 14. Pragmatics
Chapter 15. Speech styles and registers
Chapter 16. Sample texts
References
Romanization and text presentation
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1. Overview
Chapter 2. Writing system
Chapter 3. Sounds
Chapter 4. Words
Chapter 5. Morphology
Chapter 6. Argument structures
Chapter 7. Tense and aspect
Chapter 8. Grammatical constructions
Chapter 9. Noun phrase structures
Chapter 10. Quotation and complementation
Chapter 11. Information structure and the sentence form
Chapter 12. Clause combining
Chapter 13. Reference system in discourse
Chapter 14. Pragmatics
Chapter 15. Speech styles and registers
Chapter 16. Sample texts
References
