Topics In Theoretical Asian Linguistics

Download or read book Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics written by Kunio Nishiyama and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated to John B. Whitman, this collection of seventeen articles provides a forum for cutting-edge theoretical research on a wide range of linguistic phenomena in a wide variety of Asian languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Austronesian, Indo-Aryan, and Thai. Ranging from syntax and morphology to semantics, acquisition, processing and phonology, from synchronic and/or diachronic perspectives, this collection reflects the breadth of the honoree’s research interests, which span multiple research subfields in numerous Asian languages.