Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation (Hardcover)

This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the lexicon and word formation processes in contemporary Japanese, with particular emphasis on their typologically characteristic features and their interactions with syntax and semantics. Through contacts with a variety of languages over more than two thousand years of history, Japanese has developed a complex vocabulary system that is composed of four lexical strata: (i) native Japanese, (ii) mimetic, (iii) Sino-Japanese, and (iv) foreign (especially English). This hybrid composition of the lexicon, coupled with the agglutinative character of the language by which morphology is closely associated with syntax, gives rise to theoretically intriguing interactions with word formation processes that are not easily found with inflectional, isolate, or polysynthetic types of languages.

General

Imprint:	de Gruyter Mouton
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL]
Release date:	2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Taro Kageyama • Hideki Kishimoto
Dimensions:	240 x 170 x 46mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	747
ISBN-13:	978-1-61451-275-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Usage guides Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Language teaching & learning material & coursework > General
LSN:	1-61451-275-2
Barcode:	9781614512752

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