| Language Change in East Asia Contributor(s): McAuley, T. E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0700713778 ISBN-13: 9780700713776 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $218.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2001 Annotation: This text adopts a wide focus on the range of East Asian languages, in both their pre-modern and modern forms, with sections on dialect studies, contact linguistics, socio-linguistics and syntax/phonology. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines |
| Dewey: 495 |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 6.36" W x 9.26" (1.36 lbs) 314 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book adopts a wide focus on the range of East Asian languages, in both their pre-modern and modern forms, within the specific topic area of language change. It contains sections on dialect studies, contact linguistics, socio-linguistics and syntax/phonology and deals with all three major languages of East Asia: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Individual chapters cover pre-Sino-Japanese phonology, nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean; Japanese loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin; changes in Korean honorifics; the tense and aspect system of Japanese; and language policy in Japan. The book will be of interest to linguists working on East Asian languages, and will be of value to a range of general linguists working in comparative or historical linguistics, socio-linguistics, language typology and language contact. |