A reference grammar of Japanese

Samuel E. Martin

University of Hawaii Press, 2004 - Foreign Language Study - 1198 pages

Have you ever wondered about a Japanese sentence your textbook fails to explain? Do you feel unsure about the use of "wa," "ga," and "mo?" Or what the rules and meanings of words in their literary forms are? If so, you will find your answers in A Reference Grammar of Japanese, the most comprehensive and reliable reference source available. With an extensive 105-page index, the reader will quickly find explanations for particles such as wa, ga, mo, ni, and de; difficult nouns such as mono, koto, tokoro, wake, hazu, and tame; sentence extensions such as ne, yo, sa, yara, and nari; verb tenses, literary forms, negative forms--in short, everything concerned with the Japanese language. For the serious student, this book is indispensable for clearing up the ambiguities of puzzling Japanese sentences.

What people are saying

User Review -

I'm glad this book is in romaji otherwise I wouldn't understand it. All Japanese books should be written like this.

User Review -

The Romanization style used in this is awful. It's also organized horribly, making is a chore to look up definitions.

Contents

• spelling punctuation accent juncture: 15
• nuclear sentences predicates and expanded sentences: 28
• Predicate adjuncts: 34
• Expansion constraints noun subcategorization: 176
• Voice conversions: 287
• split nuclei: 316
• Exaltation: 331
• Desideratives: 355
• Negation: 366
• Adverbializations: 392
• Favors: 597
• Tentatives and hortatives: 605
• Adnominalizations typically adnominal and adverbial words: 616
• general and specific: 841
• Sentence extensions: 914
• Commands and requests: 959
• Conjunctional izations: 968
• Hearsayreporting: 984
• sooAge da: 991
• Stylizations: 1026
• Interjections afterthoughts minor sentences of various types: 1041
• Apposition: 1048
• Names titles: 1055
• Elliptical expressions: 1063
• Usage constraints agrammatisms idioms lexical compounds: 1081
• Index: 1093

Bibliographic information

• Title: A reference grammar of Japanese
• Author: Samuel E. Martin
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0824828186, 9780824828189
• Length: 1198 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / Japanese