The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics

Ed. by Natsuko Tsujimura

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 970g
• ISBN-13: 9780631234944
• ISBN-10: 0631234942
• Artikelnr.: 13587304

Autorenporträt

Natsuko Tsujimura is Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Cultures and Adjunct Associate Professor in Linguistics at Indiana University. She teaches various aspects of Japanese linguistics, lexical semantics, and all levels of Japanese. Her recent research area includes lexical semantics. Her publications include An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics (Blackwell, 1996). She is editor of the Journal of Japanese Linguistics.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Accent (Shosuke Haraguchi).

2. Mora and Syllable (Haruo Kubozono).

3. The Phonological Lexicon (Junko Itô and ArminMester).

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 (TaisukeNishigauchi).

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 (SachikoIde and Megumi Yoshida).

Bibliography.

Index.

Rezensionen

"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