An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics

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The third edition of this established textbook has been thoroughly updated and revised. It maintains its broad coverage of topics from phonetics to language variation, and increases its accessibility by incorporating a more descriptive, less theoretical approach. • A fully updated new edition of this successful textbook introducing students to a wide range of issues, phenomena, and terminology in Japanese linguistics • Includes extensive revisions to the chapters on phonetics, syntax and phonology, and incorporates a less theoretical, more descriptive approach • Features the author’s own data, examples and theoretical analyses throughout • Offers an original approach by discussing first and/or second language acquisition within each chapter • Includes exercises exploring descriptive and theoretical issues and reading lists which introduce students to the research literature, both of which have been updated in this new edition Cover Title page Copyright page Contents Preface to the Third Edition Acknowledgments 1: Introduction Suggested Readings 2: Phonetics 1 Phonetic Inventory 1.1 Consonants 1.2 Vowels 2 Suprasegmental Feature – Accent 3 Acquisition Issues Suggested Readings Exercises 3: Phonology 1 Phonological Rules in Japanese 1.1 Devoicing of High Vowels 1.2 Nasal Assimilation 1.3 Alveolar Alternations 1.4 [h]/[F]/[ç] Alternations 1.5 Digression on the Phoneme Status of [ts, č, š, ǰ, F, ç] 1.6 Rule Ordering and the Nature of Rule statement 2 Sequential Voicing – “Rendaku” 3 Mora vs. Syllable 3.1 Speech Errors 3.2 Language Games: “Babibu” Language 3.3 Syllable-Based Phenomena 4 Length Requirements 5 Loanwords 6 Accentuation in Japanese 6.1 Compound Accentuation 6.2 Accentual Variation among Endings 6.3 Accentuation of Loanwords 7 Mimetics – Palatalization 8 Acquisition Issues Suggested Readings Exercises 4: Morphology 1 Parts of Speech Categories 1.1 Nouns 1.2 Verbs 1.3 Adjectives 1.4 Adverbs 1.5 Postpositions 1.6 Case Particles 1.7 Adjectival Nouns 1.8 Verbal Nouns 2 Morpheme Types 3 Word Formation 3.1 Affixation 3.2 Compounding 3.3 Reduplication 3.4 Clipping 3.5 Borrowing 4 Issues in Japanese Morphology (1): Transitive and Intransitive Verb Pairs 5 Issues in Japanese Morphology (2): Nominalization 6 Issues in Japanese Morphology (3): Compounding 6.1 Background 6.2 N–V Compounds 6.3 V–V Compounds 7 Acquisition Issues Suggested Readings Exercises 5: Syntax 1 Syntactic Structures 1.1 Syntactic Constituency 1.2 Phrase Structures 1.3 Phrase Structure Rules 2 Word Order and Scrambling 2.1 Basic Word Order 2.2 Scrambling Phenomenon 2.3 Noun Ellipsis 3 Reflexives 3.1 Zibun 3.2 Zibun-Zisin 4 Passives 4.1 Direct Passives 4.2 Indirect Passives (Adversative Passives) 5 Causatives 5.1 O-Causatives and Ni-Causatives 5.2 The Double-O Constraint 5.3 Causative Passives 5.4 Adversative Causatives 5.5 Lexical Causatives 6 Relative Clauses (Sentence Modifiers) 6.1 The Ga/No Conversion 6.2 Relative Clauses without Gaps 6.3 Internally Headed Relative Clauses 7 The Light Verb Construction 8 Acquisition Issues Suggested Readings Exercises 6: Semantics 1 Word Meaning and Sentence Meaning 1.1 Word/Phrase Meaning and Types of Relationships 1.2 Sentence Meaning 1.3 Metaphors and Idioms 1.4 Deixis 1.5 Mimetics 2 Tense and Aspect 2.1 Tense 2.2 Aspect 3 Verb Semantics 3.1 Semantic Classes of Verbs and their Syntactic Patterns 3.2 Lexicalization 4 Pragmatics 4.1 Speaker’s Meaning 4.2 The Nature of Information 4.3 Relevance of Contextual Information 5 Acquisition Issues Suggested Readings Exercises 7: Language Variation 1 Dialectal Variation 2 Styles and Levels of Speech 3 Gender Differences 4 Acquisition Issues Suggested Readings Exercises Bibliography Index