The Comparative Syntax of Korean and Japanese

Yutaka Sato is a Visiting Professor in the College of Liberal Arts at the International Christian University in Tokyo. His research explores Japanese linguistics, the morphosyntax of Japanese and Korean, and second language acquisition. Alongside articles in journals such as Japanese & Korean Linguistics and Child Language, he is the co-author, with Margaret Yamashita, of the textbook Nihongo: Introductory Japanese.Sungdai Cho is Professor of Korean and Linguistics and Director of the Center for Korean Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He works in the areas of syntax and morphology, and on language pedagogy for Korean. He is the co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics (CUP, 2022), and co-author of Korean: A Linguistic Introduction (CUP, 2020), both with John Whitman, and of articles in journals such as Japanese & Korean Linguistics and Language Research.

• 1: Introduction2: Japanese and Korean3: Writing systems4: Case and postpositions5: Topic and focus6: Word order and scrambling7: Passives and causatives8: Relative clauses9: Nominalization10: Negation11: Tense and aspect12: HonorificsReferencesIndex