This page will be updated as readings are assigned. Required course readings are highlighted.
Background: Japanese and linguistics
General
- Backhouse, A. E. (1994). Chapter 1, "Language and setting."
The Japanese Language: An Introduction, 1-14. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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- Optional — Background on Japan and the Japanese language
- Tsujimura, Natsuko (2014). Chapter 1, "Introduction."
An introduction to Japanese linguistics, pp 1-4.
Malden, MA: Wiley.
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- Optional — Background on linguistics
Phonetics and phonology
General
- Tsujimura, Natsuko (2014). Intro and section 1 of Chapter 2, "Phonetics." An introduction to Japanese linguistics, pp 5-27. Malden, MA: Wiley. | [access ebook]
- Tsujimura, Natsuko (2014). Chapter 3, sec 3, "Mora vs. syllable."
An introduction to Japanese linguistics, pp 65-75.
Malden, MA: Wiley.
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- Optional — Background on moras
- Backhouse, A. E. (1994). Excerpts from Chapter 2 on pitch accent and intonation. The Japanese Language: An Introduction, pp 28-31 required (pp 31-37 optional). Oxford: Oxford University Press. | [see Sakai]
Advanced
- Tsuchida, Ayako (2001). "Japanese vowel devoicing: Cases of consecutive voicing environments." Journal of East Asian Linguistics 10: 225-245.
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- Ito, Junko, and Armin Mester (1999). "The phonological lexicon." In Natsuko Tsujimura (ed.), The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, 62-100. Oxford: Blackwell. | [optional (advanced HW#2)] | [downloadable version] | [access through UNC Libraries (e-book)]
Morphology and syntax
General
- O'Grady, William, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff, and Janie Rees-Miller (2010). Excerpt from Ch 5, "Syntax: The analysis of sentence structure." Contemporary Linguistics, 6ed., 155-172. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. | [see Sakai]
- Santorini, Beatrice, and Anthony Kroch (2007-). "Thematic roles." The Syntax of Natural Language: An online introduction using the Trees program. Accessible at http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/syntax-textbook. [direct link to assigned section]
Advanced
- Noguchi, Tohru (1997). "Two types of pronouns and variable binding."
Language 73(4): 770-797.
| [optional (advanced HW#5)]
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- Nemoto, Naoko (1999). "Scrambling." In Natsuko Tsujimura (ed.), The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, 121-153. Oxford: Blackwell.
| [optional]
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- Nakanishi, Kumiko (2008). "Syntax and semantics of floating numeral quantifiers."
In Shigeru Miyagawa and Mamoru Saito (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, 287-319. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
| [optional]
| [downloadable version]
- Watanabe, Akira (2006). "Functional projections of nominals in Japanese: Syntax of classifiers." Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 24(1): 241-306. | [optional] | [access through UNC Libraries]
Language use in context
Sociolinguistics
- Ide, Sachiko, and Megumi Yoshida (1999). "Sociolinguistics: Honorifics and gender differences." In Natsuko Tsujimura (ed.), The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, 444-480. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.
| [optional]
| [access through UNC Libraries (e-book)]
- Various chapters in:
Okamoto, Shigeko, and Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith, eds. 2004. Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | [optional] | [access through UNC Libraries (e-book)]
Semantics/pragmatics/discourse
- Heycock, Caroline (2008). "Japanese -wa, -ga, and information structure." In Shigeru Miyagawa and Mamoru Saito (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, 54-83. Oxford: Oxford U. Press. | [sec 1 & 2 assigned] | [downloadable version]
- Masuoka, Takashi [益岡隆志] (1993). Chapter 12, "Syudai." 24syuu nihongo bunpoo tuaa, 86-93. Tokyo: Kuroshio. | [optional] | [see Sakai]
Historical linguistics
- Shibatani, Masayoshi (1990). Ch 5, "Genetic affiliation." The Languages of Japan, 94-118. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. | [optional] | [see Sakai]