This volume will be the first full-length exploration in any language of the details of the history of the Japanese language written by experts in the different
The UNESCO atlas on endangered languages recognizes the Ryukyuan languages as constituting languages in their own right. This represents a dramatic shift in the
Studies of Japanese syntax have played a central role in the long history of Japanese linguistics spanning more than 250 years in Japan and abroad. More recentl
This volume is the first comprehensive handbook of Japanese phonetics and phonology describing the basic phonetic and phonological structures of modern Japanese
An entirely new follow-up volume providing a detailed account of numerous additional issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical l