This Handbook brings together major aspects of Japaneselinguistics, presenting overviews, current concerns and futuredirections of each topic. The areas included are phonology, syntax,semantics, morphology, language acquisition, sentence processing,pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. This Handbook is for thosewho are familiar with the topic at the basic level and wish toinvestigate it in more detail, but it also can be used as alanguage-specific and typological reference. * * Written by leading scholars in the field * Provides a unique and authoritative survey of Japaneselinguistics * Each chapter presents an overview of the topic and discussescurrent concerns and future directionsweiterlesen