Loanwords in Japanese / Mark Irwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irwin, Mark, 1967-

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 125.

Studies in language companion series ; v. 125

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese language--Foreign words and phrases.

Japanese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Loanwords in Japanese is the first monograph in a Western language to offer a systematic and coherent overview of the vast number of words borrowed into Japanese since the mid-16th century. Its publication is timely given the fact that the loanword stratum's recent exponential growth has given rise to recent Japanese government publications seeking to outlaw foreign vocabulary or, at the very least, offer native translations. Beginning with a history of loanwords, chapters cover loanword phonology, loanword morphology, loanword orthography and official and public attitudes to Japanese l

Contents:

Loanwords in Japanese; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; List of tables; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Transcriptions & translations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1.1. Language contact and lexical borrowing; 1.2. Vocabulary strata in Japanese: Definitions & divisions; 1.2.1 Native stratum; 1.2.2 Mimetic stratum; 1.2.3 Sino-Japanese stratum; 1.2.4 Foreign stratum; 1.2.5 Hybrid stratum; 1.3. Vocabulary strata in Japanese: Distribution; 1.4. Organization of this volume; A history of Japanese loanwords; 2.1. Overview

2.2. Iberian borrowings: Mid-16th century to mid-17th century2.3. Dutch borrowings: Mid-17th to mid-19th century; 2.4. Western borrowings: 19th century to present; 2.4.1 Russian borrowings; 2.4.2 French borrowings; 2.4.3 German borrowings; 2.4.4 English borrowings; 2.5. East Asian borrowings; 2.6. Names; Phonology; 3.1. Phonemicization; 3.2. Adaptation; 3.2.1 Phonic substitution; 3.2.1.1 Consonants; 3.2.1.2 Vowels; 3.2.2 Epenthesis; 3.2.2.1 Vowel epenthesis; 3.2.2.2 Mora obstruent epenthesis; 3.2.3 Deletion; 3.3. Suprasegmental issues; 3.4. Mora-clipping

Morphology, morphophonology and semantics4.1. Loanwords and morphemes, loanwords as morphemes; 4.2. Morphological reduction; 4.3. Compound phenomena; 4.3.1 Compound reduction; 4.3.1.1 Compound clipping; 4.3.1.2 Ellipsis; 4.3.1.3 Portmanteau formation; 4.3.2 Sequential voicing; 4.4. Semantics; Orthography; 5.1. Japanese scripts; 5.2. Loanword orthography until 1955; 5.3. Loanword orthography from 1955; 5.3.1 Orthographical recommendations I: Monbusho; 5.3.2 Orthographical recommendations II: Bunkacho; 5.4. Roman script; 5.4.1 Abbreviations and full words; 5.4.2 Acronyms; Attitudes to loanwords

ReferencesFirst Attestation Sources; Other References; Donor word; Loanword index; Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613144102

9781283144100

1283144107

9789027286895

9027286892

OCLC:

731647057