Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-350) and index.
Contents
Writing system -- Sounds -- Words -- Morphology -- Argument structures -- Tense and aspect -- Grammatical constructions -- Noun phrase structures -- Embedding -- Information structure and the sentence form -- Discourse and grammar -- Pragmatics and grammar -- Subjectivity effects -- Sample texts.
Note
Print version record.
Summary
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, gramma.