Japanese Grammar: The Connecting Point

by Kimihiko Nomura

Overview

Japanese Grammar: The Connecting Point is instrumental for anyone learning Japanese who seeks to gain a firm grasp of the most important aspect of the language: verb usage. Learning Japanese may seem to be a daunting task, but Dr. Nomura's book will help readers conjugate verbs into a variety of formats, construct sentences systematically, and hold intelligible conversations in Japanese.
He groups all Japanese verbs into clusters, creating a method of how each of those groups conjugate, and then demonstrates how to combine various verb forms with auxiliary expressions to form complex sentences. Not only is this method excellent for beginners, as it creates a solid foundation for learners to increase their language ability and attain fluency at a rapid rate, but also for intermediate and advanced levels, as it will help them solidify their verb usage and use Japanese with greater confidence.
Learners will also benefit from Dr. Nomura's method because they will be able to shift the level of formality in any conversational situation according to what is culturally appropriate. Furthermore, when a new verb is uttered by other people, the learner will be able to immediately apply the agglutinative process described in this grammar book and generate sentences with a variety of suffixes in a culturally appropriate manner.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761853114
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	10/21/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	490
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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