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This book is a detailed survey of the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu.
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"Shibatani's wide-ranging survey of Japanese is replete with intriguing ideas...it is a significant and timely contribution to the literature from a productive and influential scholar." Linguistic Anthropology
"This combination of breadth and boldness makes for instructive and engaging reading, all in an accessible style which promises to make this work a staple on reading lists in future courses on the history and structure of the Japanese language." Wesley M. Jacobsen, Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese
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This book is a detailed survey of the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. The first part of this study is a most comprehensive study of the polysynthetic Ainu language. The second part deals extensively with Japanese. It discusses topics from the evolution of the writing system to issues of greater theoretical complexity.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0521360706
- ISBN 13 9780521360708
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages428
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