The Principles of Japanese Linguistics

Download or read book The Principles of Japanese Linguistics written by Motoki Tokieda and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: //The text is arranged in order for the Japanese original to come first and the English translation to follow page by page. It contains the complete Japanese original. The readers can see the linearity of the Japanese script.//Motoki Tokieda had a sense that the traditional view of language estranged itself either from the essential theory of language or the methodology for systematic organization of the national language. He found Akira Suzuki's theory on SHI and JI in a historical study of the national language which had been sunk in waves of modernization on and after the Meiji era, and tried to theoretically re-construct it, which is the origin of this book. //The expressive process theory of language regards a subject's process of expression up to sounds or characters itself as language. The theory on sounds, SHI and JI, and the nest form structure are assumed to be an index to the systematic organization of the national language, though they are developed along a traditional paradigm like phonetics, morphology, and syntax.