Handbook Of Japanese Lexicon And Word Formation

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Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation

Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 747
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ISBN-10 : 9781501500817
ISBN-13 : 1501500813
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Book Synopsis Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation by : Taro Kageyama

Download or read book Handbook of Japanese Lexicon and Word Formation written by Taro Kageyama and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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