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Informationen zum Autor Natsuko Tsujimura is Chair and Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University. She is the editor of The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics (Wiley-Blackwell, 1999) and Japanese Linguistics: Critical Concepts (2005), and is Review Editor of the journal Language. She has published extensively on various aspects of Japanese linguistics, including phonology, syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistics. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the Third Edition xiAcknowledgments xiv1 Introduction 1Suggested Readings 42 Phonetics 51 Phonetic Inventory 71.1 Consonants 81.1.1 Stops 81.1.2 Fricatives 101.1.3 Affricates 121.1.4 Liquids 121.1.5 Glides 131.1.6 Nasals 141.1.7 Further Notes on Consonants 181.2 Vowels 222 Suprasegmental Feature - Accent 273 Acquisition Issues 33Notes 35Suggested Readings 36Exercises 373 Phonology 391 Phonological Rules in Japanese 401.1 Devoicing of High Vowels 401.2 Nasal Assimilation 441.3 Alveolar Alternations 471.4 [h]/[x]/[ç] Alternations 511.5 Digression on the Phoneme Status of [ts, è, s, ?, x, ç] 521.6 Rule Ordering and the Nature of Rule Statement 542 Sequential Voicing - "Rendaku" 563 Mora vs. Syllable 653.1 Speech Errors 683.1.1 English 683.1.2 Japanese 703.2 Language Games: "Babibu" Language 723.3 Syllable-Based Phenomena 744 Length Requirements 755 Loanwords 816 Accentuation in Japanese 856.1 Compound Accentuation 866.1.1 Accentuation of Long Nominal Compounds 876.1.2 Accentuation of Short Nominal Compounds 916.1.3 Accentuation of Superlong Nominal Compounds 956.2 Accentual Variation among Endings 966.3 Accentuation of Loanwords 1027 Mimetics - Palatalization 1048 Acquisition Issues 109Notes 114Suggested Readings 118Exercises 1194 Morphology 1251 Parts of Speech Categories 1261.1 Nouns 1261.2 Verbs 1281.3 Adjectives 1311.4 Adverbs 1321.5 Postpositions 1331.6 Case Particles 1341.7 Adjectival Nouns 1371.8 Verbal Nouns 1402 Morpheme Types 1423 Word Formation 1503.1 Affixation 1503.2 Compounding 1523.3 Reduplication 1543.4 Clipping 1543.5 Borrowing 1554 Issues in Japanese Morphology (1): Transitive and Intransitive Verb Pairs 1575 Issues in Japanese Morphology (2): Nominalization 1686 Issues in Japanese Morphology (3): Compounding 1746.1 Background 1746.2 N-V Compounds 1796.3 V-V Compounds 1846.3.1 Lexical vs. Syntactic V-V Compounds 1846.3.2 Lexical V-V Compounds: Semantic Relations 1956.3.3 Lexical V-V Compounds: Transitivity and Argument Structure 2006.3.4 Transitive and Intransitive CompoundVerb Pair...
