SoJ | Reading list

This page will be updated as readings are assigned. Required course readings are highlighted.

Background

Backhouse, A. E. (1994). Chapter 1, "Language and setting." The Japanese Language: An Introduction, 1-14. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | [optional]

Hayes, Bruce (2009). Chapter 1, "Phonetics." Introductory Phonology, 1-18. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Tsujimura, Natsuko (2007). Chapter 3 excerpt, "Mora vs. syllable." Introduction to Japanese Linguistics, 58-66. Oxford: Blackwell.

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.

Tsuchida, Ayako (2001). "Japanese vowel devoicing: Cases of consecutive voicing environments." Journal of East Asian Linguistics 10: 225-245. | [optional] | [access through UNC Libraries]
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)]
Mester, R. Armin, and Junko Ito (1989). "Feature predictability and underspecification: Palatal prosody in Japanese mimetics." Language 65(2): 258-293. | [optional] | [access through UNC Libraries]
Kubozono, Haruo (1999). "Mora and syllable." In Natsuko Tsujimura (ed.), The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, 31-61. Oxford: Blackwell. | [optional] | [access through UNC Libraries (e-book)]

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.

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]

Koizumi, Masatoshi (2008). "Nominative object." In Shigeru Miyagawa and Mamoru Saito (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, 141-164. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | [Assigned sections: 6.1, 6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.2.4]

Noguchi, Tohru (1997). "Two types of pronouns and variable binding." Language 73(4): 770-797. | [optional (advanced HW#5)] | [access through UNC Libraries]
Nemoto, Naoko (1999). "Scrambling." In Natsuko Tsujimura (ed.), The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, 121-153. Oxford: Blackwell. | [optional] | [access through UNC Libraries (e-book)]
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]

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)]

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. | [optional] | [downloadable version]
Masuoka, Takashi [益岡隆志] (1993). Chapter 12, "Syudai." 24syuu nihongo bunpoo tuaa, 86-93. Tokyo: Kuroshio. | [optional]

Shibatani, Masayoshi (1990). Ch 5, "Genetic affiliation." The Languages of Japan, 94-118. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.