The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics)

✍ Scribed by Natsuko Tsujimura (Editor)

• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd.
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 575
• Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
ISBN......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
1 Accent......Page 15
2 Mora and Syllable......Page 45
3 The Phonological Lexicon......Page 76
4 Variationist Sociolinguistics......Page 115
5 Scrambling......Page 135
6 Reflexives......Page 168
7 Passives......Page 205
8 Causatives......Page 250
9 Quantification and wh-Constructions......Page 283
10 Word Formation......Page 311
11 Tense and Aspect......Page 340
12 Lexical Semantics......Page 363
13 First Language Acquisition......Page 392
14 Sentence Processing......Page 412
15 Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics......Page 439
16 Sociolinguistics: Honorifics and Gender Differences......Page 458
Bibliography......Page 495
Index......Page 540