University Press of America
Pages: 490
Trim: 8⅜ x 11¼
978-0-7618-5311-4 • Paperback • October 2010 • $82.99 • (£64.00)
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Kimihiko Nomura is a professor of Japanese and the director of the Japanese Language and Culture Program in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at California State University, Chico. He received his doctorate in education from Northern Arizona University in 1990. Dr. Nomura has been a foreign language instructor both in Japan and in the U.S. for the last thirty-nine years.
Chapter 1 List of abbreviations
Chapter 2 List of tables and figures
Chapter 3 Preface
Chapter 4 Acknowledgements
Chapter 5 CHAPTER 1: Pronunciation and Writing Systems
Chapter 6 CHAPTER 2: Basic Sentence Patterns
Chapter 7 CHAPTER 3: Verb Categorizations
Chapter 8 CHAPTER 4: Verb Conjugations and Functions
Chapter 9 CHAPTER 5: Verbals and the Particles
Chapter 10 CHAPTER 6: The Copular Verb
Chapter 11 CHAPTER 7: Copular Noun
Chapter 12 CHAPTER 8: Adjective
Chapter 13 CHAPTER 9: Auxiliary Verb
Chapter 14 CHAPTER 10: Adverb
Chapter 15 CHAPTER 11: Noun
Chapter 16 CHAPTER 12: Pronoun
Chapter 17 Appendix A: How to Use Appendix A
Chapter 18 Appendix B: How to Use Appendix B
Chapter 19 Bibliography
Chapter 20 Index
Chapter 21 About the Author