Japanese
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Japanese
（London Oriental and African language library, v. 5）
John Benjamins, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-350) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: us ISBN 9781588112361
Description
Japanese ranks as the sixth language of the world with more than 125 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. It has a long written tradition, which goes back to texts from the eighth century AD. The modern writing system employs a mixture of Chinese characters and two sets of syllabary developed from the Chinese characters.
This book consists of fourteen chapters covering the phonology, morphology, the writing system, 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.
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: eur ISBN 9789027238054
Description
Japanese ranks as the sixth language of the world with more than 125 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. It has a long written tradition, which goes back to texts from the eighth century AD. The modern writing system employs a mixture of Chinese characters and two sets of syllabary developed from the Chinese characters.
This book consists of fourteen chapters covering the phonology, morphology, the writing system, 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.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Overview: geographical and historical background of the language
- preliminary remarks on the grammar of the language. Part 2 Writing system. Part 3 Sounds: the inventory of sounds
- phonological rules
- mora and syllable
- accent. Part 4 Words: vocabulary strata
- word classes
- some notable word classes. Part 5 Morphology: morphology of the inflectional category
- word-formation processes. Part 6 Argument structures: argument structure types
- adjunct noun phrases
- syntactic roles
- noncanonical argument structures. Part 7 Tense and aspect: tense
- aspect. Part 8 Grammatical constructions: passive construction
- spontaneous construction
- potential construction
- causative construction
- benefactive construction
- reciprocal construction
- numeric phrase construction. Part 9 Noun phrase structures: genitive and associative phrases
- simple attributive phrases
- clausal noun modification
- some syntactic characteristics. Part 10 Embedding: quotation - quoted speech and thought
- complementation
- internally headed relative clauses (IHRs)
- integrated adverbial clauses
- summary. Part 11 Information structure and the sentence form: the declarative sentence
- information structure. Part 12 Discourse and grammar: clause combining
- referent tracking. Part 13 Pragmatics and grammar: modality
- information status and the interaction process
- subjectivity effects
- speech levels and honorifics
- male/female speech
- speech register. Part 14 Sample texts: newspaper article
- folk tale
- first person narrative
- conversation 1
- conversation 2.
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