Languages of Japan

Name: Languages of Japan
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ISBN: 9780521369183

ISBN-10: 0521369185

ISBN-13: 9780521369183

Edition: 1990

Authors: Masayoshi Shibatani, S. R. Anderson, J. Bresnan, B. Comrie, W. Dressler

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This book surveys the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. No genetic relationship has been established between them, and structurally they differ significantly. Shibatani has therefore divided his study into two independent parts. The first is the most comprehensive study of the polysynthetic Ainu language yet to appear in English. The second part deals extensively with Japanese. It discusses topics from the evolution of the writing system and the differences between men's and women's speech, to issues of greater theoretical complexity, such as phonology, the lexicon and word formation, and the syntax of agglutinative morphology. As an American trained scholar in…

Book details

List price: $66.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/3/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 428
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



List of maps


Preface


List of abbreviations used in glosses



The Ainu Language



Introduction



Sound structure



Grammatical structure



The Japanese Language



Introduction



Genetic affiliation



History



Lexicon



Phonology



Dialects



Word formation



Grammatical structure



Epilogue


References


Index