Topics in Theoretical Asian Linguistics

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today #250

by Kunio Nishiyama (Editor), Hideki Kishimoto (Editor), Edith Aldridge (Editor)

Dedicated to John B. Whitman, this collection of seventeen articles provides a forum for cutting-edge theoretical research on a wide range of linguistic phenomena in a wide variety of Asian languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Austronesian, Indo-Aryan, and Thai. Ranging from syntax and morphology to semantics, acquisition, processing and phonology, from synchronic and/or diachronic perspectives, this collection reflects the breadth of the honoree’s research interests, which span multiple research subfields in numerous Asian languages.

410 pages, Hardcover

Published December 12, 2018