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Making Out in Tagalogby Renato Perdon
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 7.95Learn to speak the colloquial language the Filipinos really use with Making Out in Tagalog . This phrase book is an excellent guide to the modern Tagalog spoken in everyday interactions - giving access to lots of colorful, colloquial expressions not covered in other phrase books. Making Out in Tagalog features a pronunciation guide and notes on Filipino language and culture. The phrases are organized according to typical encounters. Each expression is given in Tagalog script so you can show the person you are talking to. Making Out in Tagalog will bring you to a new level of fluency and communication in Tagalog! more...
Tuvaluanby Niko Besnier
Routledge 1999; US$ 333.00The first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least well-documented languages of Polynesia. more...
Old Japaneseby Marc Hideo Miyake
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 195.00What did eighth-century Japanese sound like? How does one decode its complex script? This book provides the definitive answers to these questions using an unprecedented range of data from the past and the present. more...
Language and Society in Japanby Nanette Gottlieb; Yoshio Sugimoto; Harumi Befu; Roger Goodman
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 29.00Nanette Gottlieb's book considers the role of language in Japanese society in relation to identity formation. It covers important questions such as multilingualism, language and nationalism, and literacy and reading habits. Building on the author's previous highly regarded work, it will be essential reading for students and scholars. more...
A descriptive grammar of early Old Japanese proseby J.R. Bentley
BRILL 2001; US$ 155.00The oldest written stage of the Japanese language forms the subject of John Bentley's important volume. The underlying texts (also presented here) are those of the religious liturgies (norito) and imperial edicts (A.D. 685). more...
Colloquial Japaneseby H. D. B. Clarke; Motoko Hamamura
Taylor & Francis 2002; US$ 29.95This new edition of the popular Japanese course for beginners has been completely rewritten to make learning the language easier and more enjoyable than ever before. more...
Cleft Constructions in Japanese Syntaxby Mika Kizu
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 116.00Cleft constructions occur across languages and are much analyzed in relation to syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Mika Kizu, working in a Principles and Parameters framework, with some consideration of the Minimalist Program, provides the first coherent account of cleft constructions in Japanese. She claims that the construction is analyzed on a par with topic constructions and some types of relative clause. One of the most interesting properties, the syntactice phenomenon of 'connectivity' is closely examined. more...
The Japanese Copulaby Tomiko Narahara
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 110.00In this study, Tomiko Narahara offers a multi-disciplinary description of the Japanese copula, revealing it to be at the interface of morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. more...
Argument Encoding in Japanese Conversationby Mitsuaki Shimojo
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 105.00Japanese is well known for its array of argument encoding types - but how is speakers' choice of encoding types to be described? This book investigates the encoding of subject and direct object in conversational Japanese and attempts to explain Japanese argument encoding as a unified system. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of a bank of conversation are provided, with the emphasis on speakers' use of the encoding types rather than their acceptability for given arguments. more...
Linguistic Stereotyping And Minority Groups In Japanby Nanette Gottlieb
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 44.95This book examines linguistic stereotyping in Japan and the ways in which different marginalised groups have protested against it. more...









