Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Japanese
With respect to the rich and long history of Japanese linguistics, this text is intended to make a modest contribution, intending to provide a useful outline, especially for those who are not familiar with the language.
Japanese
Japanese ranks as the ninth most widely spoken language of the world with more than 127 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. Japanese has a long written tradition, which goes back to texts from the eighth century CE. The modern writing system employs a mixture of Chinese characters and two sets of syllabary indigenously developed based on the Chinese characters. This book consists of sixteen chapters covering the phonology, morphology, writing system, tense and aspect systems, basic argument structure, grammatical constructions, and discourse and pragmatic phenomena of Japanese. It provides researchers with a useful typological reference and students of Japanese with a theory-neutral introduction to current linguistic research issues.
A Reference Grammar of Thai
A clear, detailed and comprehensive guide to the grammar of the Thai language.
Japanese
With respect to the rich and long history of Japanese linguistics, this text is intended to make a modest contribution, intending to provide a useful outline, especially for those who are not familiar with the language.
Subjectivity in Grammar and Discourse
This book investigates the notion of subjectivity from a pragmatic point of view. There have been attempts to reduce the notion of the speaker or subjectivity as a syntactic category, or to seek an explanation for it in semantic terms. However, in order to understand the vast range of subjectivity phenomena, it is more fruitful to examine how the attributes and the experience of the real speaker affect language. The volume provides a theoretical/methodological basis for the study of various aspects of language and discourse and applies these specifically to Japanese spoken discourse, for which the data are added in an appendix.
Japanese/Korean Linguistics: Volume 2
"The annual Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for presenting research that will broaden the understanding of these two languages, especially through comparative study. The sixteenth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, held in October of 2006 at Kyoto University, was the first in the history of the conference to be held outside of the United States. The thirty-six papers in this volume encompass a variety of areas, such as phonetics; phonology; morphology; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; discourse analysis; and the geographical and historical factors that influence the development of languages, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics." --Book Jacket.
Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse
The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson's career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are produced, an approach to grammatical analysis that Thompson pioneered and developed in the course of her distinguished career.
Japanese/Korean Linguistics: Volume 3
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Third Annual Southern California Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, held at San Diego State University. The papers discuss aspects of discourse and language acquisition, syntax and semantics, and phonology. The contributors include Taegoo Chung, Yoko Collier-Sanuki, Haruko Minegishi Cook, Kaoru Jorie, Hiroto Hoshi, Shoichi Iwasaki, Hee-Bok Jung, Kyu-hyun Kim, Yookyung Kim, Isatsugu Kitahara, Christopher Manning, William McClure, Shigeru Miyagawa, Junko Mori, Kei Nakamura, Myungkwan Park, Wendy Snyder, Keunwon Sohn, Susan Strauss, Natsuko Tsujimura, Shuichi Yatabe, and Alexander Vovin. Soonja Choi is associate professor of linguistics and oriental languages at San Diego State University.
Textual Parameters in Older Languages
Textual Parameters in Older Languages takes a contemporary approach to the inherent limitations of using older texts as data for linguistic analysis, drawing on methods of text analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to supplement traditional historical and philological methods. The focus of the book is on the importance of controlling for textual parameters-defined by the editors as dimensions of variation associated with texts and their production, including text type, degree of poeticality, orality, and dialect-in the analysis of older language data. Failure to do so can result in invalid generalizations; recognizing the influence of textual parameters, conversely, raises a myriad of is...
