J.
Marshall Unger (click for
e-mail)
Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University
Course syllabi:
New system (from Autumn semester 2012)
- EALL 6383 Scripts of East Asia (will be offered Autumn 2012)
- JAPN 2231 Elements of Japanese Culture (will be offered Spring 2013) Experimental Section
- JAPN 6381 History of the Japanese Language (will be offered Spring 2013)
Old system (until Spring quarter 2012)
- JAPN 601 Classical Japanese I (last offered Autumn 2007)
- JAPN 602 Classical Japanese II (last offered Winter 2012)
- JAPN 782 Japanese
Phonology (last offered Spring 2009)
- JAPN 887 Topics and Problems in Japanese Linguistics (last offered Autumn 2010)
Books:
- The Fifth Generation Fallacy
- Konpyûta shakai to kanji
- Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan
- Senryô-ka Nihon no hyôki kaikaku
- A Framework for Introductory Japanese Language Curricula
- Studies in Early Japanese Morphophonemics
- Conference on National Strategic Assessment of Japanese Language Education, Maryland, 1995
- Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning
- The Role of Contact in the Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages
On-line
publications:
- Good ways to use computers in teaching (1985, rev. 2002; text in Japanese)
- Chapter 3 of The Fifth Generation Fallacy (1987, rev. 2003)
- Chapter 1 of Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan, sections 1 and 3 (1996, rev. 2003)
- A collection of sangaku problems with solutions (PDF file)
- Sangaku problems involving ellipses (PDF file)
- Writing Systems exhibit (Spring-Summer 2009) (PDF file)
Special thanks to Mark Swofford for preparing the book excerpts so that they can be read on a variety of browsers! Mark's guide to romanization-related books in English is a superb resource.
Last Updated on 28 January 2013