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Grammatical Sketches of Japanese Dialects and Ryukyuan Languages
Volume 1
978-90-04-51910-7
Yukinori Takubo (Doctor of Lit. at Kyoto University, 2006) is the Director-General of the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. He is also a professor emeritus of Kyoto University, Japan. His research interests include generative syntax, pragmatics, discourse management theory, formal semantics, and the description and documentation of Ryukyuan languages. He has (co-)authored and (co-)edited numerous books, book series, special issues of journals, including the
Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics,
Nihongo Bunpou ("Basic Grammar of Japanese"), and the
Journal of Semantics. He has also been editor-in-chief of
Gengo Kenkyu, and the former President of the Linguistic Society of Japan.
Haruo Kubozono (Ph.D. 1988 in Linguistics, University of Edinburgh) is professor and Deputy Director-General at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. His current work focuses on word and sentence prosody in Japanese dialects. He recently edited
The Phonetics and Phonology of Geminate Consonants (Oxford University Press, 2017) and
Tonal Change and Neutralization (De Gruyter Mouton, 2018).
Shin Fukuda (Ph.D. 2009 in Linguistics, University of California, San Diego) is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His research interests include theoretical and experimental syntax, lexical semantics, syntax-semantics interface phenomena and their acquisition, and East and South East Asian languages.
Series Editors:
Yukinori Takubo,
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan Haruo Kubozono,
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan Shin Fukuda,
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Mānoa, Hawaii, USA Masahiro Yamada,
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan
Editorial Board:
Edith Aldridge,
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Peter Austin, Prof. em.,
SOAS, University of London, London, UK Andrea Berez-Kroeker,
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Mānoa, Hawaii, USA Izumi Hoshi,
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan Shoichi Iwasaki,
University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA Ritsuko Kikusawa,
Minpaku - National Museum of Ethnology, Suita, Japan Izumi Konishi,
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Randy LaPolla,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Wayne Lawrence,
The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Naonori Nagaya,
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Thomas Pellard,
CNRS, Paris, France Julia Sallabank,
SOAS, University of London, London, UK Hannah Sarvasy,
Western Sydney University, Greater Western Sydney, Australia Masayoshi Shibatani, Prof. em.,
Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA &
Kobe University, Kobe, Japan Michinori Shimoji,
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Editorial Assistants:
Shirley Gabber,
Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Mānoa, Hawaii, USA Laura Griffin,
Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Mānoa, Hawaii, USA Sebastian Ohara-Saft,
Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Mānoa, Hawaii, USA Liv Peralta,
Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Mānoa, Hawaii, USA Annika Topelian,
Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Mānoa, Hawaii, USA Rui Yamawaki,
Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Mānoa, Hawaii, USA