An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics

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