ABSTRACT

First published in 2003. Present day Japanese has a basic word order of subject, object,, verb (SOV). As a result, it has postpositions rather than prepositions, branching is to the left. rather than to the right, and inflectional endings are added to the right rather than to the left. The goal of the editors of this series is to provide references works for a number of languages which will be uniform in appearance and content.

chapter 1|186 pages

Syntax

chapter 2|202 pages

Morphology

chapter 3|39 pages

Phonology

chapter 4|18 pages

Ideophones and Interjections

chapter 5|29 pages

Lexicon