Language Change in East Asia

By T.E. McAuley

Book Overview

This book adopts a wide focus on the range of East Asian languages, in both their pre-modern and modern forms, within the specific topic area of language change. It contains sections on dialect studies, contact linguistics, socio-linguistics and syntax/phonology and deals with all three major languages of East Asia: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Individual chapters cover pre-Sino-Japanese phonology, nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean; Japanese loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin; changes in Korean honorifics; the tense and aspect system of Japanese; and language policy in Japan. The book will be of interest to linguists working on East Asian languages, and will be of value to a range of general linguists working in comparative or historical linguistics, socio-linguistics, language typology and language contact.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138879169
• ISBN13: 9781138879164
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"