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全編英文の日本語学の教科書。- 著者は英語ネイティブで，日本での研究・教育経験あり
- 欧米の言語学の傾向と日本国内での日本語学・国語学の成果をともに取り入れる
- 文法，語彙はもちろん，日本語史，文字，方言，社会・政策との関わりまで，バランスよく解説
- 日本語学，言語学の講義教科書にも最適
- こんな方へ：
　- 日本語学を英語で学ぶ大学生，留学生，教える教員
　- 日本語研究の成果を英語で発信したい大学院生，研究者
　- 英語話者，言語学者の視点を取り入れたい日本語教育，英語教育関係者- Thorough coverage of Japanese linguistics in 86 self-standing units
- Includes topics never covered previously in general treatments in English: anti-honorifics, prescriptive grammar, Japanese pidgins & creoles, role language, non-verbal communication, kokuji, names, language in sub-culture, Tōhoku and Kyūshū dialects, JSL education & software, discriminatory vocabulary, the kokugo curriculum, loanword prohibition & reform, public signage, braille, research on the Japanese language, Japanese language tests and examinations
- For readers who are:
　- non-native speakers of Japanese studying both in their home country and in Japan
　- native speakers studying and teaching the Japanese language in English

〔内容〕Phonology & Phonetics／Grammar & Syntax／Orthography & Writing／Lexicon & Word Formation／Language & Society／Language Contact & Dialects／Policy，Education&Research

Chapter 1　Introduction（導入）
1.1　Origins and Affiliation
1.2　Typology
1.3　A Brief History of Japanese
1.4　The Modern Language

Chapter 2　Phonology and Phonetics（音韻と音声）
2.1　Fundamentals of Japanese Phonology
2.2　Consonants
2.3　Vowels
2.4　Mora and Syllable
2.5　Phonotactics
2.6　Pitch Accent
2.7　Pitch Accent in Compounds
2.8　Phonological Play
2.9　Phonology through Time

Chapter 3　Grammar and Syntax（文法と統語）
3.1　Parts of Speech and Word Order
3.2　Nouns, Pronouns and Formal Nouns
3.3　Verbs: Morphophonology
3.4　Verbs: Transitivity, Volition and Aspect
3.5　Adjectives, Adverbs and Adnouns
3.6　Predication and Copulas
3.7　Verbal Suffixes I: Final Suffixes
3.8　Verbal Suffixes II: Non-final Suffixes
3.9　Auxiliaries
3.10　Verbs of Giving and Receiving and Benefactive Auxiliaries
3.11　Conjunctions
3.12　Particles
3.13　Derivational Particles
3.14　The Notion of Topic and wa versus ga
3.15　Grammar through Time

Chapter 4　Orthography and Writing（正書法と書記）
4.1　Writing Systems
4.2　Chinese Characters: Origins
4.3　Chinese Characters: Writing
4.4　Chinese Characters: Reading
4.5　Chinese Characters: Kokuji
4.6　Hiragana and Katakana
4.7　The Roman Alphabet
4.8　Chinese and Arabic Numerals
4.9　Punctuation
4.10　Script Mixing
4.11　Braille
4.12　Orthographic Licence and Orthographic Play
4.13　Writing Styles
4.14　Public Signage

Chapter 5　Lexicon and Word Formation（語彙と語形成）
5.1　Vocabulary Strata
5.2　Mimetics
5.3　Derivation and Affixation
5.4　Compounding
5.5　Rendaku
5.6　Truncation
5.7　Personal Pronouns
5.8　Numerals and Classifiers
5.9　Homonymy, Polysemy and Heteronomy
5.10　Slang and Jargon
5.11　Discriminatory Vocabulary

Chapter 6　Language and Society（言語と社会）
6.1　Gender, Age and Social Class
6.2　Register and Role Language
6.3　Honorifics
6.4　Anti-Honorifics
6.5　Language in Subculture
6.6　Greetings and Partings
6.7　Non-Verbal Communication
6.8　Attitudes to Language
6.9　Names

Chapter 7　Language Contact and Dialects（言語接触と方言）
7.1　Sino-Japanese
7.2　Foreign Borrowings
7.3　English Borrowings
7.4　Japanese Pidgins and Creoles
7.5　Language Murder
7.6　Japanese Words in Foreign Languages
7.7　Japanese Dialects and Dialect Divisions
7.8　Dialect Diffusion
7.9　Eastern and Western Dialects
7.10　Tōhoku Dialects
7.11　Kyūshū Dialects

Chapter 8　Education, Research and Policy（教育と研究，政策）
8.1　Government Language Policy
8.2　Kanji and Kana Reform
8.3　Loanword Reform
8.4　Loanword Prohibition
8.5　The Kokugo Curriculum
8.6　Prescriptive Grammar in Education
8.7　Classical Japanese and Kanbun Education
8.8　Japanese as a Second Language Education
8.9　Language Tests and Examinations
8.10　Dictionaries and Lexicography
8.11　Language Software
8.12　Japanese Research on the Japanese Language
8.13　Non-Japanese Research on the Japanese Language

Further Reading（文献案内）
Bibliography
English-Japanese Glossary（英和用語集）
Index（索引）