Textbooks
Kess, Joseph F. and Tadao Miyamoyo. 1999. The Japanese Mental
Lexicon: Psycholinguistic Studies of Kana and Kanji Processing.
Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Takeuchi, Lone. 1999. The Structure and History of Japanese:
From Yamatokotoba to Nihongo. London/New York: Longman.
Course packet of selected readings, to be purchased at Gator
Textbooks 3501 SW 2nd Ave. Suite D, Creekside Mall, 374-4500).
See end of syllabus for contents.
Course
Objectives, Requirements, and Evaluation
DAILY SCHEDULE
Jan
M 08 Introduction to the course
W 10 Takeuchi, Preface xi-xii, Transliteration conventions,
xiii-xiv Chapter 1: Language in Japanese Culture, 1-22.
F 12 Chapter 1: Language in Japanese Culture, 22-40.
M 15 Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday, no class
W 17 Takeuchi, Chapter 2: Phonology, 41-56.
F 19 Homework: pitch accent. & Cutler, Anne and Takashi
Otake. 1999. Pitch accent in spoken-word recognition in Japanese.
Journal of the Accoustical Society of America 105 (3), March
1999: 1877-1888. (& available on reserve or online download
from LUIS entry: follow links).
M 22 Kess and Miyamoto, Chapter 1: Introduction, and Chapter 2: A
History of the Japanese Orthography, 1-32.
Recommend reading: on how to best characterize kanji
Matsunaga, Sachiko. The Linguistic Nature of Kanji Reexamined: Do
Kanji Represent Only Meanings? Journal of the Association of
Teachers of Japanese, Volume 30, Number 2, October 1996, 1-22.
Unger, J. Marshall. The Very Idea: The Notion of Ideogram in
China and Japan. Monumenta Nipponica, Volume 45, Number 4, Winter
1990, 391-411.
W 24 Kess and Miyamoto, Chapter 3: Kanji Processing, 33-44; &
Hirose, Hitoshi. 1998: Identifying the On- and Kun-readings of
Chinese characters: Identification of On versus Kun as a
strategy-based judgment. Reading and Writing 10: 375-394 (&
available on reserve or online: follow links).
F 26 Kess and Miyamoto, Chapter 3: Kanji Processing, p. 45-68.
M 29 Homework: kanji origins. Kess and Miyamoto, Chapter 3: Kanji
Processing, 68-82.
W 31 Kess and Miyamoto, Chapter 4: Kana Processing, 83-110.
Recommended reading:
Yamada Jun. 1998. The time course of semantic and phonological
access in naming kanji and kana words. Reading and Writing 10:
425-437 (available online: follow links).
Feb
F 02 Kess and Miyamoto, Chapter 5: Romaji Processing, and Chapter
6: Kanji-Kana Mixed Texts, 111-128.
M 05 Kess and Miyamoto, Chapter 7: Acquisition of Orthography
Skills, 129-152
Recommended reading:
Hatta T., A. Kawakami, and K. Tamaoka. 1998. Writing errors in
Japanese kanji: A study with Japanese students and foreign
learners of Japanese. Reading and Writing 10: 457-470.
W 07 Kess and Miyamoto, Chapter 8: Eye-Movement Studies, 153-166;
*Kogure Taro. 1996. How do we make sense of written words? Sophia
Linguistica 40: 73-89 (*in course pack).
F 09 Kess and Miyamoto, Chapter 9: Laterality, and Chapter 10:
Conclusions, 167-208.
M 12 Exam #1: covers all readings thus far.
W 14 Takeuchi, Chapter 3: Indexicality, 57-71.
F 16 *Hiraga Masako K. 1999. DEFERENCE as DISTANCE: Metaphorical
Base of Honorific Verb Construction in Japanese. In Cultural,
Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics:
Selected Papers of the Bi-annual ICLA Meeting in Albuquerque,
July 1995, edited by Masako K. Hiraga, Chris Sinha and Sherman
Wilcox, 47-68. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (*in
course packet)
M 19 Takeuchi, Chapter 4: Predicate Structures, 72-86.
W 21 Homework: morphology problem. Takeuchi, Chapter 4: Predicate
Structures, 86-104.
F 23 & Ono Kiyoharu. 1999. Intransitive-Transitive Phrase
Pairs in Japanese. Theoretical Linguistics, Vol. 25, No. 1:15-29.
(& on reserve)
M 26 Takeuchi, Chapter 4: Predicate Structures, 104-125.
W 28 *Ono Kiyoharu. 2000. Grammaticalization of Japanese Verbals.
Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vo1. 20, No. 1:39-79. Read
pages 39-59 for today. (*in course packet)
Mar
F 02 *Ono Kiyoharu. 2000. Grammaticalization of Japanese Verbals.
Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vo1. 20, No. 1:39-79. Read
pages 59-79 for today. (*in course packet)
M 05 ~ F 09 Spring Break
M 12 Takeuchi, Chapter 5: Topic, focus, and case, 126-142.
W 14 Homework: memorization project. Takeuchi, Chapter 5: Topic,
focus, and case, 142-158.
F 16 *Jarkey, Nerida. 1999. Case Marking of Objects of Stative
Predicates in Japanese. Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vol.
19, No. 2:197-224. (*in course packet)
M 19 *Tsuboi Eijiro. 2000. Cognitive Models in Transitive
Construal in the Japanese Adversative Passive. In Constructions
in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected Papers from the Fifth
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997,
edited by Ad Foolen and Frederike van der Leek, 283-300.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (*course packet)
W 21 Takeuchi, Chapter 5: Topic, focus, and case, 158-177.
F 23 Takeuchi, Chapter 5: Topic, focus, and case, 177-184; &
Hagiwara Hiroko et al. 1999. Neurolinguistic evidence for
rule-based nominal suffixation. Language, vol. 75, No. 4:
739-763. (& on reserve)
M 26 & Nishiyama Kunio. 1999. Adjectives and the Copulas in
Japanese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Vol. 8, No.
3:183-222. (& on reserve)
W 28 Takeuchi, Chapter 6: Sentence structures, 185-205.
F 30 Homework: manga analyis. Takeuchi, Chapter
6: Sentence structures, and Chapter 7:A summary of the historical
developments, 205-216.
Apr
M 02 Exam #2: Takeuchi: Chapter 3-end, and all readings since
02/12/01.
W 04 *Kunihiro Tetsuya. 1970. A Contrastive Study of Vocabulary.
In Studies in General and Oriental Linguistics, edited by Roman
Jacobson and Shigeo Kawamoto, 325-347. Tokyo: TEC Co. Ltd. (*in
course packet)
F 06 *Fujii Yoko. 1999. The Story of "Break": Cognitive
Categories of Objects and the System of Verbs. In Cultural,
Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics:
Selected Papers of the Bi-annual ICLA Meeting in Albuquerque,
July 1995, edited by Masako K. Hiraga, Chris Sinha and Sherman
Wilcox, 313-332. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (*in
course packet)
M 09 & Kita Sotaro. 1999. Japanese Enter/Exit Verbs without
Motion Semantics. Studies in Language Vol. 23, No. 2:307-330.
(& on reserve)
W 11 *Poser, William J. 1991. Ma. In Interdisciplinary Approaches
to Language, edited by Carol Georgopoulos and Roberta Ishihara,
p. 449-458. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (*in course
packet)
F 13 *Tagashira Yoshiko. 1999. Some Aspects of Relational Nouns.
In Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: 1993 Proceedings of the
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, edited by Leon de
Stadler and Christoph Eyrich, 249-276. Berlin/New York: Mouton de
Gruyter. (*in course packet)
M 16 & Suzuki Satoko. 1999. Marker of Unexpected Statements:
An Analysis of the Quotative Particle Datte. Journal of the
Association of Teachers of Japanese, Vol. 33, No. 1:44-67. (&
on reserve)
W 18 Lexicon project: presentations.
F 20 Lexicon project: presentations.
M 23 Lexicon project: presentations.
W 25 Lexicon project: presentations. All lexicon projects to be
turned in.
Course Packet of Selected Required Readings
Fujii Yoko. 1999. The Story of "Break": Cognitive
Categories of Objects and the System of Verbs. In Cultural,
Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics:
Selected Papers of the Bi-annual ICLA Meeting in Albuquerque,
July 1995, edited by Masako K. Hiraga, Chris Sinha and Sherman
Wilcox, 313-332. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Hiraga Masako K. 1999. DEFERENCE as DISTANCE: Metaphorical Base
of Honorific Verb Construction in Japanese. In Cultural,
Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics:
Selected Papers of the Bi-annual ICLA Meeting in Albuquerque,
July 1995, edited by Masako K. Hiraga, Chris Sinha and Sherman
Wilcox, 47-68. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Jarkey, Nerida. 1999. Case Marking of Objects of Stative
Predicates in Japanese. Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vol.
19, No. 2:197-224.
Kogure Taro. 1996. How Do We Make Sense of Written Words? Sophia
Linguistica 40:73-89
Kunihiro Tetsuya. 1970. A Contrastive Study of Vocabulary. In
Studies in General and Oriental Linguistics, edited by Roman
Jacobson and Shigeo Kawamoto, 325-347. Tokyo: TEC Co. Ltd.
Ono Kiyoharu. 2000. Grammaticalization of Japanese Verbals.
Australian Journal of Linguistics, Vo1. 20, No. 1:39-79.
Poser, William J. 1991. Ma. In Interdisciplinary Approaches to
Language, edited by Carol Georgopoulos and Roberta Ishihara, p.
449-458. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Tagashira Yoshiko. 1999. Some Aspects of Relational Nouns. In
Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: 1993 Proceedings of the
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, edited by Leon de
Stadler and Christoph Eyrich, 249-276. Berlin/New York: Mouton de
Gruyter.
Tsuboi Eijiro. 2000. Cognitive Models in Transitive Construal in
the Japanese Adversative Passive. In Constructions in Cognitive
Linguistics: Selected Papers from the Fifth International
Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997, edited by Ad
Foolen and Frederike van der Leek, 283-300.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Required Readings on Reserve
Cutler, Anne and Takashi Otake, 1999. Pitch Accent in Spoken-word
Recognition in Japanese. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, Vol. 105, No. 3:1877-1888.
Hagaiwara Hiroko, et al. 1999. Neurolinguistic Evidence for
Rule-Based Nominal Suffixation. Language 75:4, 739-763.
Hirose Hitoshi. 1998. Identifying the On- and Kun-readings of
Chinese Characters: Identification of On versus Kun as a
Strategy-based Judgment. Reading and Writing 10: 375-394.
Kita Sotaro. 1999. Japanese Enter/Exit Verbs without Motion
Semantics. Studies in Language Vol. 23, No. 2:307-330.
Nishiyama Kunio. 1999. Adjectives and the Copulas in Japanese.
Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Vol. 8, No. 3:183-222.
Ono Kiyoharu. 1999. Intransitive-Transitive Phrase Pairs in
Japanese. Theoretical Linguistics, Vol. 25, No. 1:15-29.
Suzuki Satoko. 1999. Marker of Unexpected Statements: An Analysis
of the Quotative Particle Datte. Journal of the Association of
Teachers of Japanese, Vol. 33, No. 1:44-67.
Selected bibliography
Basic titles in Japanese linguistics. You should refer to MARTIN
for any aspect of Japanese language, MILLER for any aspect of
history of the Japanese language, and ALFONSO for any information
about basic Japanese grammar or sentence patterns. Consult
TSJUIMURA (1996, 1999), KUNO (1973), and SHIBATANI (1990) on key
issues in Japanese linguistics.
Alfonso, Anthony. 1966. Japanese Language Patterns: A Structural
Approach. Tokyo: Sophia University. 2 Volumes.
Backhouse, A. E. 1994. The Lexical Field of Taste: A Semantic
Study of Japanese Taste Terms. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Bloch, Bernard. 1970. Bernard Bloch on Japanese, ed. by Roy
Andrew Miller. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Georg, Stefan et al. 1998. Telling General Linguists About
Altaic. Journal of Linguistics 35:65-98.
Hamano Shoko. 1998. The Sound-Symbolic System of Japanese.
Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, Center for the Study of Language
and Information.
Hasada, Rie. "Conditionals and Counterfactuals in
Japanese," Language Sciences, Volume 19, Number 3, July
1997, 277-288.
Hatta T., A. Kawakami and K. Tamaoka. 1998. Writing Errors in
Japanese Kanji: A Study with Japanese Students and Foreign
Learners of Japanese. Reading and Writing 10: 457-470.
Itô, Junko and Ralf-Armin Mester. "The Phonology of Voicing
in Japanese," Linguistic Inquiry, Volume 17, Number 1,
Winter 1986, 49-73.
Iwasaki Shoichi. 1993. Subjectivity in Grammar and Discourse:
Theoretical Considerations and a Case Study of Japanese Spoken
Discourse. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Jacobsen, Wesley. 1992. The Transitive Structure of Events in
Japanese. Tokyo: Kurosio.
Kubozono Haruo. 1993. The Organization of Japanese Prosody.
Tokyo: Kurosio.
Kuno Susumu. 1973. The Structure of the Japanese Language.
Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Kurisu Kazutaka. 2000. Richness of the Base and Root Fusion in
Sino-Japanese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Vol. 9, No.
2:147-185.
Loveday, Leo J. 1996. Language Contact in Japan: A
Socio-linguistic History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Martin, Samuel. 1975. A Reference Grammar of Japanese. New Haven:
Yale University Press.
Matsunaga Sachiko. 1995. The role of Phonological Coding in
Reading Kanji: A Research Report and Some Pedagogical
Implications. Honolulu: Second Language Teaching and Curriculum
Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Matsunaga, Sachiko. "The Linguistic Nature of Kanji
Reexamined: Do Kanji Represent Only Meanings?," Journal of
the Association of Teachers of Japanese, Volume 30, Number 2,
October 1996, 1-22.
Maynard, Senko. 1989. Japanese Conversation:
Self-contextualization through Structure and Interactional
Management. Norwood: Ablex.
Maynard, Senko. 1993. Discourse Modality: Subjectivity, Emotion
and Voice in the Japanese Language. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins.
Maynard, Senko. 1998. Principles of Japanese Discourse: A
Handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Menn, Lise et al. 1998. The Interaction of Preserved Pragmatics
and Impaired Syntax in Japanese and English Aphasic Speech. Brain
and Language 61:183-225.
Miller, Roy Andrew. 1967. The Japanese Language. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Miyagawa Shigeru. 1989. Structure and Case Marking in Japanese,
Syntax and Semantics Vol. 22. San Diego: Academic Press.
Nakayama Mineharu. 1996. Acquisition of Japanese Empty
Categories. Tokyo: Kurosio.
Onishi, Masayuki. "The Grammar of Mental Predicates in
Japanese," Language Sciences, Volume 19, Number 3, July
1997, 219-233.
Shibatani Masayoshi. 1990. The Languages of Japan. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Shibatani Masayoshi, ed. 1976. Japanese Generative Grammar,
Syntax and Semantics Vol. 5. New York: Academic Press.
Soga Matsuo. 1983. Tense and Aspect in Modern Colloquial
Japanese. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Sugioka Yoko. 1986. Interaction of Derivational Morphology and
Syntax in Japanese and English. New York: Garland.
Suzuki, Satoko. "Incorporation of Information and
Complementizers in Japanese," Pragmatics 6:4 (1996),
511-551.
Suzuki Takao. Japanese and the Japanese: Words in Culture, trans.
by Akira Miura. Tokyo: Kodansha International.
Tsujimura Natsuko. 1996. An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Tsujimura Natsuko, ed. 1999. The Handbook of Japanese
Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Twine, Nanette. 1991. Language and the Modern State: The Reform
of Written Japanese. London/New York: Routledge.
Unger, J. Marshall. 1996. Literacy and Script Reform in
Occupation Japan: Reading Between the Lines. New York/Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Unger, J. Marshall. "The Very Idea: The Notion of Ideogram
in China and Japan," Monumenta Nipponica, Volume 45, Number
4, Winter 1990, 391-411.
Vance, Timothy J. 1987. An Introduction to Japanese Phonology.
Albany: State University of New York Press.
Vance, Timothy J. "Sequential Voicing in
Sino-Japanese," Journal of the Association of Teachers of
Japanese, Volume 30, Number 1, April, 1996, 22-43.
Yamada Jun. 1998. The Time Course of Semantic and Phonological
Access in Naming Kanji and Kana Words. Reading and Writing 10:
425-437.
Yamamoto Mutsumi. 1999. Animacy and Reference: A Cognitive
Approach to Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins.