A linguistic tree. (Courtesy of Mark Knauf and Etsuyo Yuasa, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL), Ohio State University.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa
MIT Course Number
24.946
As Taught In
Fall 2004
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course is a detailed examination of the grammar of Japanese and its structure which is significantly different from English, with special emphasis on problems of interest in the study of linguistic universals. Data from a broad group of languages is studied for comparison with Japanese. This course assumes familiarity with linguistic theory.
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