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Croom Helm Descriptive Grammars: Japanese
Author John Hinds
Publisher Croom Helm
CategoryGeneral grammar
ISBN0709937334 (Hardback) [COPAC, Webcatplus, Wikipedia]

Review by Barry A Byrne

This book is more a scholarly resource than a book for beginners. It covers Syntax, Morphology, Phonology, Ideophones and Interjections, and Lexicon. Bad points: although there is kanji in the text, the examples are all in romaji. The text gives the appearance of being typed on a typewriter.

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