J. Marshall Unger (click for e-mail)

Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University

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Course syllabi:

• EALL 683 Scripts of East Asia (will next be offered Spring 2012)
• JAPN 231 Elements of Japanese Culture (last offered Autumn 2011)
• JAPN 601 Classical Japanese I (last offered Autumn 2007)
• JAPN 602 Classical Japanese II (will be offered Winter 2012)
• JAPN 681 History of the Japanese Language (will next be offered Spring 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.

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Last Updated on 19 December 2011