Routledge Studies in East Asian Linguistics
About the Book Series
This research monograph series is dedicated to bringing together a collection of books by scholars on the linguistic issues of East Asian languages. Predominantly focussing on Chinese, Japanese and Korean linguistics, this series is for linguists studying a single East Asian language, or a comparison of languages from the region. Approaches can be theoretical, applied, historical, comparative, experimental or interdisciplinary in nature. Proposed volumes are welcome from all areas, including theoretical aspects of a language or its dialects, language change and variation, bilingualism and multilingualism, language policy and politics, pragmatics and honorifics, discourse studies, corpus studies, language acquisition, etc. This series is also meant for heritage language teachers and teachers-to-be who study theoretical and applied aspects of their language to be better equipped for teaching. All titles in the series will be published in English and meant for an international readership.
The Japanese Language in the Pacific Region
1st Edition
By Daniel Long, Keisuke Imamura
December 26, 2025
Long and Imamura examine language contact phenomena in the Asia Pacific region in the context of early 20th-century colonial history, focusing on the effects the Japanese language continues to have over island societies in the Pacific. Beginning in the early 20th century when these islands were ...
Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
1st Edition
Edited
By Chungmin Lee, Young-Wha Kim, Byeong-Uk Yi
August 29, 2022
Focusing mainly on classifiers, Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages offers a deep investigation of three major classifier languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This book provides detailed discussions well supported by empirical evidence and corpus analyses. Theoretical ...
The Grammar of Chinese Characters: Productive Knowledge of Formal Patterns in an Orthographic System
1st Edition
By James Myers
June 30, 2021
Anybody who reads or writes Chinese characters knows that they obey a grammar of sorts: though numerous, they are built out of a much smaller set of constituents, often interpretable in meaning or pronunciation, that are themselves built out of an even smaller set of strokes. This book goes far ...
Southern Min: Comparative Phonology and Subgrouping
1st Edition
By Bit-Chee Kwok
December 12, 2019
Southern Mǐn refers to a group of Chinese dialects spoken mainly in Southeast China and Taiwan. This group occupies a special position in the study of Chinese dialects, not only because of its large population of speakers (around 48 million) but also because of its preservation of various archaic ...
The Grammar of Japanese Mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition, and translation
1st Edition
Edited
By Noriko Iwasaki, Peter Sells, Kimi Akita
September 25, 2019
Mimetic words, also known as ‘sound-symbolic words’, ‘ideophones’ or more popularly as ‘onomatopoeia’, constitute an important subset of the Japanese lexicon; we find them as well in the lexicons of other Asian languages and sub-Saharan African languages. Mimetics play a central role in Japanese ...