The languages of Japan

Masayoshi Shibatani

This book is a detailed survey of the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. No genetic relationship has been established between them, and structurally they differ significantly. Professor Shibatani has therefore divided his study into two independent parts. The first is a most comprehensive study of the polysynthetic Ainu language. 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 Japan, the author is in an unique postion that affords him a dual perspective on language deriving from Western linguistic scholarship and the Japanese grammatical tradition.

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This book is a detailed survey of the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. No genetic relationship has been established between them, and structurally they differ significantly. Professor Shibatani has therefore divided his study into two independent parts. The first is a most comprehensive study of the polysynthetic Ainu language. 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 Japan, the author is in an unique postion that affords him a dual perspective on language deriving from Western linguistic scholarship and the Japanese grammatical tradition.

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[目次]

  • List of maps
  • Preface
  • List of abbreviations used in glosses
  • Part I. The Ainu Language: 1. Introduction
  • 2. Sound structure
  • 3. Grammatical structure
  • Part II. The Japanese Language: 4. Introduction
  • 5. Genetic affiliation
  • 6. History
  • 7. Lexicon
  • 8. Phonology
  • 9. Dialects
  • 10. Word formation
  • 11. Grammatical structure
  • 12. Epilogue
  • References
  • Index.

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[目次]

  • List of maps
  • Preface
  • List of abbreviations used in glosses
  • Part I. The Ainu Language: 1. Introduction
  • 2. Sound structure
  • 3. Grammatical structure
  • Part II. The Japanese Language: 4. Introduction
  • 5. Genetic affiliation
  • 6. History
  • 7. Lexicon
  • 8. Phonology
  • 9. Dialects
  • 10. Word formation
  • 11. Grammatical structure
  • 12. Epilogue
  • References
  • Index.

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この本の情報

書名 The languages of Japan
著作者等 柴谷 方良
Shibatani Masayoshi
シリーズ名 Cambridge language surveys
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 1990
ページ数 xv, 411 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 0521369185
0521360706
NCID BA10111475
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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