JAPANESE: A LINGUISTIC INTRODUCTION
Supplementary Materials
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: Typological and Historical Overview
- Late Old Japanese: Genji Monogatari (pdf, 201KB)
Late Old Japanese: Genji Monogatari with audio file (pptx, 1,619KB)
Chapter 2: Dialects
- Momotaro in the Fukushima, Tokyo, Osaka, and Kagoshima dialects (mp4, 5,339KB)
Pitch accent patterns (pdf) - Momotaro in the Ishigaki dialect of Okinawa (mp3, 1,039KB)
- Momotaro in the Miyako dialect of Okinawa (mp3, 1,145KB)
- Momotaro in the Naha dialect of Okinawa (mp3, 195KB)
- Momotaro in the Nakijin dialect of Okinawa (mp3, 905KB)
- Momotaro in the Yonaguni dialect of Okinawa (mp3, 1,385KB)
- The high vowel in Tohoku dialects (mp4, 7,028KB)
- Kesen dialect (mp4, 16,148KB)
- Momotaro in the Goshogawara dialect (mp3, 180KB)
- Amilight TV commercial in the Nagoya dialect (3,061KB)
- Kagoshima dialect radio talk show (mp3, 511KB)
Script (pdf, 42KB) - The pitch accent of "ame" (11,991KB). The left two are speakers of the Tokyo dialect, and the right three of the Osaka dialect.
Chapter 3: Sound System
- IPA: Acoustic Phonetics (pptx, 330KB)
- Table 3.1: Japanese Syllables (mp3, 1,160KB)
Chapter 4: Writing System
PART II: LEXICON
Chapter 5: Vocabulary
- Ideophones: Miyazawa Kenji (pptx, 66,840KB)
- Ideophones: Orikuchi Shinobu (pptx, 40,667KB)
Chapter 6: Word Structure
PART III: GRAMMATICAL FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 7: Grammatical Relations and Case Marking
Chapter 8: Subjects and Topics
Chapter 9: Tense, Aspect, and Taxis
PART IV: MAJOR CLAUSE TYPES
Chapter 10: Measurement and Comparison
Chapter 11: Causatives
Chapter 12: Passives
Chapter 13: Benefactives
Chapter 14: Nominalization
Chapter 15: Noun Modification and Complementation
PART V: CLAUSE LINKAGE
Chapter 16: Temporal Clauses
Chapter 17: Causal and Concessive Clauses
Chapter 18: Conditional Clauses
PART VI: PRAGMATICS (LANGUAGE USAGE)
Chapter 19: Speech Acts
Chapter 20: Politeness and Honorifics I
- Hasegawa, Yoko. 2006. Embedded soliloquy and affective stances in Japanese. In Emotive Communication in Japanese, ed., Satoko Suzuki, 209-29. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Chapter 21: Politeness and Honorifics II
Chapter 22: Speech Style Shift
Chapter 23: Sentence-Final Particles
Chapter 24: Modality and Evidentiality
- Hasegawa, Yoko, and Yukio Hirose. 2005. What the Japanese language tells us about the alleged Japanese relational self. Australian Journal of Linguistics 25: 219-51.
- Kamio, Akio. 1994. The theory of territory of information: The case of Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics 21: 67-100.
- Kamio, Akio. 1995. Territory of information in English and Japanese and psychological utterances. Journal of Pragmatics 24: 235-64.
Chapter 25: Backchanneling
- Hakase SUIDOBASHI Talk Show 1
- Hakase SUIDOBASHI Talk Show 2
- Maynard, Senko. 1990. Conversation management in contrast: Listener response in Japanese and American English. Journal of Pragmatics 14: 397-412.
- Clancy, Patricia M., Thompson, Sandra A., Suzuki, Ryoko, and Tao, Hongyin. 1996. The conversational use of reactive tokens in English, Japanese, and Mandarin. Journal of Pragmatics 26: 355-87.
- Ono, Tsuyoshi and Eri Yoshida, 1996. A study of co-construction in Japanese: We don’t finish each Other’s sentences. In N. Akatsuka, S. lwasaki and S. Strauss, eds., Japanese/Korean Linguistics 5, 115-29. Stanford, CA: CSLI.
Chapter 26: Demonstratives
Chapter 27: Represented Speech
Chapter 28: Gendered Speech