All articles can be found at https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/lij

Research Papers

Gómez Pérez, Laura. Comparative Analysis of Role Language Translation in Manga: A Case Study of the English Version of Ranma ½. Volume 3.

Miyaoka, Hiroshi. Cross-dialectal Formulations of the Occurrence Conditions of ragyō-godanka in Japanese Dialects, Focusing on Stem-final Vowels, the Stem Mora Count, and Suffixes: A Preliminary Report. Volume 2.

Osterkamp, Sven. A Diachronic Perspective on Segmentation Cues in Written Japanese: From Script Mixture, Size, and Spacing to the Reinvention of a Corollary of Cursive Writing. Volume 1.

Puntervold, Jonathan. On the Origins of Yamada Yoshio’s Sentence Theory and the Emergence of Chinjutsu as a Theoretical Term. Volume 3.

Shiba, Ayako. Spontaneous Intransitives in Old Japanese and their Relationship with the Verbal Suffix –rare. Volume 3.

Takahashi, Sophie & Osterkamp, Sven. Reading Between the Words in Romanized Japanese: A Quantitative Analysis of Spacing and Related Phenomena in the Jesuit Contemptus Mundi (1596). Volume 2.

Invited Papers

Labrune, Laurence. Decentring Linguistics: A Japanese Perspective. Volume 1.

Shimoji, Michinori. Inclusives as a Distinct Person Category, with a Special Focus on Ryukyuan Languages. Volume 1.

Takubo, Yukinori. Co-occurrence Restrictions Between Wh-words and the Sentence-final Use of Two Conditional Forms in a Variety of Okayama Japanese. Volume 2.

Unger, J. Marshall. New Thoughts on Voiced Obstruent Lenition and the Allophones of /g/. Volume 3.

Book Reviews (sorted by author of book under review)

de Boer, Elisabeth M. Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History (reviewed by Igarashi Yosuke). Volume 3.

Frellesvig, Bjarke & Kinsui, Satoshi (eds). Handbook of Historical Japanese Linguistics (reviewed by Matthew Zisk, Mark Irwin & Heiko Narrog). Volume 3.

Hosokawa, Naoko. Loanwords and Japanese Identity: Inundating or Absorbed (reviewed by Gavin Furukawa). Volume 2.

Joby, Christopher. The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan (reviewed by Clemens Poppe). Volume 2.

Kupchik, John. Azuma Old Japanese: A Comparative Grammar and Reconstruction (reviewed by Alexander Francis-Ratte). Volume 2.

Kupchik, John, José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente & Marc Hideo Miyake (eds). Studies in Historical Linguistics, Philology and Beyond: Festschrift Presented to Alexander V. Vovin in Honor of his 60th Birthday (reviewed by J. Marshall Unger). Volume 1.

Robertson, Wesley C. Scripting Japan: Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese (reviewed by Sean Nicholson). Volume 1.

Sato, Yutaka & Cho, Sungdai. The Comparative Syntax of Korean and Japanese (reviewed by Tsukamoto Hideki). Volume 3.

Schreiber, Gordian. Japanese Morphography: Deconstructing hentai kanbun (reviewed by Nicholas Tranter). Volume 2.

Shimoji, Michinori (ed.). An Introduction to the Japonic Languages: Grammatical Sketches of Japanese Dialects and Ryukyuan Languages (reviewed by Thomas Pellard). Volume 2.

Vovin, Alexander. The Footprints of the Buddha: The Text and the Language (reviewed by J. Marshall Unger). Volume 1.

Yonezawa, Yoko. The Mysterious Address Term anata ‘you’ in Japanese (reviewed by Emi Morita). Volume 1. 

Book Reviews (sorted by reviewer)

Francis-Ratte, Alexander. Azuma Old Japanese: A Comparative Grammar and Reconstruction (by John Kupchik). Volume 2.

Furukawa, Gavin. Loanwords and Japanese Identity: Inundating or Absorbed (by Hosokawa Naoko). Volume 2.

Igarashi, Yosuke. Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History (by Elisabeth M. de Boer). Volume 3.

Morita, Emi. The Mysterious Address Term anata ‘you’ in Japanese (by Yoko Yonezawa). Volume 1. 

Nicholson, Sean. Scripting Japan: Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese (by Wesley C. Robertson). Volume 1.

Pellard, Thomas. An Introduction to the Japonic Languages: Grammatical Sketches of Japanese Dialects and Ryukyuan Languages (edited by Shimoji Michinori). Volume 2.

Poppe, Clemens. The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan (by Christopher Joby). Volume 2.

Tranter, Nicholas. Japanese Morphography: Deconstructing hentai kanbun (by Gordian Schreiber). Volume 2.

Tsukamoto, Hideki. The Comparative Syntax of Korean and Japanese (by Yutaka Sato & Sungdai Cho). Volume 3.

Unger, J. Marshall. Studies in Historical Linguistics, Philology and Beyond: Festschrift Presented to Alexander V. Vovin in Honor of his 60th Birthday (edited by John Kupchik, José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente, and Marc Hideo Miyake, eds.) & The Footprints of the Buddha: The Text and the Language (by Alexander Vovin). Volume 1.

Zisk, Matthew, Mark Irwin & Heiko Narrog. Handbook of Historical Japanese Linguistics (edited by Bjarke Frellesvig & Satoshi Kinsui). Volume 3.

Translations of Seminal Papers (sorted by author of original paper)

Endō, Kunimoto. Dialect Leveling by Age Group: A Case Study of the Kyoto Dialect (translated by Dylan Toda). Volume 3.

Hida, Yoshifumi. Translation of Foreign Words from the Late Edo Period to the Early Meiji Period (translated by Sophie Takahashi). Volume 3.

Hirayama, Teruo. A Study of the Dialect of Miyako (Okinawa) (translated by Patrick Palmer). Volume 2.

Miyaji, Yutaka. The Construction of Sentences with the Verbs yaru, kureru, and morau as Predicates (translated by Dylan Toda). Volume 2.

Morita, Takeshi. The Roman Transcription of the Christian Materials with a Focus on Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam and Rodrigues’ Arte da Lingoa de Iapam (translated by Mark Irwin). Volume 1.

Tanaka, Akio. On Japanese Homophony (translated by Kinji Ito). Volume 2.

Watanabe, Minoru. Jojutsu and Chinjutsu: The Structure of Predicate Phrases (translated by Dylan Toda). Volume 1.

Translations of Seminal Papers (sorted by translator)

Irwin, Mark. The Roman Transcription of the Christian Materials with a Focus on Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam and Rodrigues’ Arte da Lingoa de Iapam (written by Morita Takeshi). Volume 1.

Ito, Kinji. On Japanese Homophony (written by Tanaka Akio). Volume 2.

Palmer, Patrick. A Study of the Dialect of Miyako (Okinawa) (written by Hirayama Teruo). Volume 2.

Takahashi, Sophie. Translation of Foreign Words from the Late Edo Period to the Early Meiji Period (written by Hida Yoshifumi). Volume 3.

Toda, Dylan. Jojutsu and Chinjutsu: The Structure of Predicate Phrases (written by Watanabe Minoru). Volume 1.

Toda, Dylan. The Construction of Sentences with the Verbs yaru, kureru, and morau as Predicates (written by Miyaji Yutaka). Volume 2.

Toda, Dylan. Dialect Leveling by Age Group: A Case Study of the Kyoto Dialect (written by Endō Kunimoto). Volume 3.

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