{"product_id":"language-change-in-east-asia-9781138879164","title":"Language Change in East Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book adopts a wide focus on the range of East Asian languages, in both their pre-modern and modern forms, within the specific topic area of language change. It contains sections on dialect studies, contact linguistics, socio-linguistics and syntax\/phonology and deals with all three major languages of East Asia: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Individual chapters cover pre-Sino-Japanese phonology, nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean; Japanese loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin; changes in Korean honorifics; the tense and aspect system of Japanese; and language policy in Japan. The book will be of interest to linguists working on East Asian languages, and will be of value to a range of general linguists working in comparative or historical linguistics, socio-linguistics, language typology and language contact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas E. McAuley, University of Sheffield, UK\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50332617277714,"sku":"9781138879164","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bce6a023-331a-47ce-992c-e85433a9a4dc.jpg?v=1727840788","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/language-change-in-east-asia-9781138879164","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}