Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199830077)

Over the past twenty years or so, the work on Japanese within generative grammar has shifted from primarily using contemporary theory to describe Japanese to contributing directly to general theory, on top of producing extensive analyses of the language. The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics captures the excitement that comes from answering the question, "What can Japanese say about Universal Grammar?" Each of the eighteen chapters takes up a topic in syntax, morphology, acquisition, processing, phonology, or information structure, and, first of all, lays out the core data, followed by critical discussion of the various approaches found in the literature. Each chapter ends with a section on how the study of the particular phenomenon in Japanese contributes to our knowledge of general linguistic theory. This book will be useful to students and scholars of linguistics who are interested in the latest studies on one of the most extensively studied languages within generative grammar.

Author: Shigeru Miyagawa
ISBN-10: 019983007X
ISBN-13: 9780199830077
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2012
Pages: 566
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.60w x 1.20d