Japanese/Korean Linguistics

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, on both languages. The papers in this volume are from the twenty-fourth conference, which was held at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. They include essays on the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, prosody, and psycholinguistics of both languages. Such comparative studies deepen our understanding of both languages and will be a useful reference for students and scholars in either field.

Kenshi Funakoshi is project assistant professor at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. Shigeto Kawahara is associate professor at Keio University, Japan, where Christopher D. Tancredi is professor in the Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies.