In this primarily sociolinguistic study Professor Loveday takes an eclectic approach, drawing on insights from other subfields of linguistics such as comparative and historical linguistics and stylistics, and from a number of other ...
Focusing on the influence of foreign speech on the Japanese language, particularly Chinese and English, and demonstrating how these languages have been modified when incorporated into Japanese, Professor Loveday offers a general model for ...
The Role of Contact in the Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages shows how an interdisciplinary approach can shed light on a difficult case in which the separation of two languages lies close to the time horizon of the comparative ...