The following is a list of core reading which all students on the course will be expected to be familiar with. Other, specific reading assignments will be given in the course of the teaching.
Overview
Goddard, Cliff : The Languages of East and Southeast Asia, 2005. Oxford University Press.
Chinese
Kane, Daniel: The Chinese Language: Its History and Current Usage, 2006. Tokyo:Tuttle Pub.
Ramsey, S. Robert : The languages of China, 1987. Princeton University Press.
Sun, Chaofen : Chinese: A Linguistic Introduction, 2006. Cambridge University Press.
Japanese
Frellesvig, Bjarke, Masayoshi Shibatani and John Charles Smith (eds.): Current issues in the history and structure of Japanese, 2008. Tokyo: Kurosio Publishers.
Miller, Roy Andrew : The Japanese Language, 1967. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Shibatani, Masayoshi : The languages of Japan, 1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tsujimura, Natsuko : An introduction to Japanese linguistics, 2007. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
Korean
Lee, Iksop and S. Robert Ramsey : The Korean Language, 2000. State University of New York Press.
Sohn, H.-M: The Korean Language, 1999. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Language specific reading in the original language:
Japanese
Okutsu, Kei'ichir?: 'Boku wa unagi da' no bunp?: da to no, 2nd edition, 1993. Kurosio Publishers. pp. 7 - 52.