Nihongo: In Defence of Japanese

abstract achronic actually adjective Altaic languages analysis appear arbitrary segmentation Bashō Bernard Bloch borrowed Buddhist calque century Chapter China Chinese characters Chinese script Chinese words cited concerned course culture early Edkins employed English enormous entirely etymology example foreign frequently function Genji given names glosses Heian human identify ideographic important Indo-European involved Japan Japanese grammar Japanese language Japanese linguistic Japanese literary Japanese literature Japanese scholars Japanese verb Japanese word Japanese writing system kana Kumon least Leonard Bloomfield lexical linguistic forms linguistic science literal Mahāyāna makura kotoba Man'yōshū matter means misleading modern Japanese Mori Arinori morphemes Morris nature noun Old Japanese texts original orthographic particularly passage pericope poem precisely problem pronoun prose question reader reference Sei Shōnagon sense sentence sequence simply society sociolinguistic specific syntactic structures syntax tense things transformational-generative translation-glosses vague variety Viglielmo visible spectrum vowel Western word-class written yama Yuasa's