TY - BOOK ID - 77935607 TI - Loanwords in Japanese PY - 2011 SN - 1283144107 9786613144102 9027286892 9789027286895 9789027205926 9027205922 9781283144100 661314410X PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., DB - UniCat KW - Japanese language KW - Foreign words and phrases. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77935607 AB - Loanwords in Japanese is the first monograph in a Western language to offer a systematic and coherent overview of the vast number of words borrowed into Japanese since the mid-16th century. Its publication is timely given the fact that the loanword stratum's recent exponential growth has given rise to recent Japanese government publications seeking to outlaw foreign vocabulary or, at the very least, offer native translations. Beginning with a history of loanwords, chapters cover loanword phonology, loanword morphology, loanword orthography and official and public attitudes to Japanese l ER -