The new edition of <strong>An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics</strong> gives an updatedcomprehensive account of Japanese linguistics covering phonetics pho... » 

The new edition of An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics gives an updatedcomprehensive account of Japanese linguistics covering phonetics phonologymorphology syntax semantics language change dialect variation and genderdifferences.Changes in the new edition include a new chapter on language acquisition whichincludes experimental research and its implications for phonologicalsyntactic and semantic issuesIntroduces linguistic notions and terminology and discusses theoreticalanalyses of linguistic phenomena in the Japanese languageFocuses primarily on phonology and syntax and adopts a generative grammarframeworkIncludes exercises exploring descriptive and theoretical issues and readinglists which introduce students to the research literature. «