The Comparative Syntax of Korean and Japanese (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) - Hardcover

Sato, Yutaka; Cho, Sungdai

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198896468 ISBN 13: 9780198896463

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2024

Synopsis

This book provides a detailed survey of Korean and Japanese syntax from a comparative perspective, based within a generative framework. Yukata Sato and Sungdai Cho demonstrate that while the two languages exhibit remarkably similar morphosyntactic features, they behave differently in specific types of construction.

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About the Author

Yutaka Sato, Visiting Professor, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University,Sungdai Cho, Professor of Korean and Linguistics, State University of New York at Binghamton

Yutaka Sato is a Visiting Professor in the College of Liberal Arts at the International Christian University in Tokyo. His research explores Japanese linguistics, the morphosyntax of Japanese and Korean, and second language acquisition. Alongside articles in journals such as Japanese & Korean Linguistics and Child Language, he is the co-author, with Margaret Yamashita, of the textbook Nihongo: Introductory Japanese.


Sungdai Cho is Professor of Korean and Linguistics and Director of the Center for Korean Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He works in the areas of syntax and morphology, and on language pedagogy for Korean. He is the co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics (CUP, 2022), and co-author of Korean: A Linguistic Introduction (CUP, 2020), both with John Whitman, and of articles in journals such as Japanese & Korean Linguistics and Language Research.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198896468
• ISBN 13: 9780198896463
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356