内容説明
全編英文の日本語学の教科書。〔内容〕Phonology & Phonetics／Grammar & Syntax／Orthography & Writing／Lexicon & Word Formation／Language & Society／Language Contact & Dialects／Education, Research & Policy
目次
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 <I>wa</I> versus <I>ga</I>
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: <I>Kokuji</I>
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 Tohoku Dialects
7.11 Kyushu 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）
