Japanese: A Comprehensive Grammar

By S. Kaiser, Yasuko Ichikawa, N. Kobayashi, Hilofumi Yamamoto. 2001

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Japanese: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to modern Japanese grammar. It explores the complexities of the language thoroughly, filling many gaps left by previous textbooks. Clear grammar points are put in context by examples from a range of Japanese media. The emphasis is firmly on contemporary Japanese as spoken and written by native speakers. Features of the book include: * coverage of colloquial and standard Japanese * clear alphabetical organization * extensive cross-referencing * detailed index of Japanese and English terms Written by experts in their fields, this will prove a lasting and reliable resource for all learners of Japanese.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics

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TyDi QA: A Benchmark for Information-Seeking Question Answering in Typologically Diverse Languages (2020, background): “Japanese: Japanese is a mostly nonconfigurational language in which particles are used to indicate grammatical roles though the verb typically occurs in the last position (Kaiser et al., 2013).”
Language choices and pedagogic functions in the foreign language classroom: a cross-linguistic functional analysis of teacher talk (2005, background): “In addition, being discourse-oriented languages, the Asian languages allow the ellipsis of any constituent of a sentence if the information is retrievable from the context (see Kaiser et al., 2001; Sohn, 1994), which is not the case with the European languages.”