1st Edition

A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese

384 Pages
by Routledge

380 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese is an invaluable tool for all learners of Japanese, providing a list of the 5,000 most commonly used words in the language. Based on a100 million word corpus, composed of spoken, fiction, non-fiction and news texts in current use, the dictionary provides the user with a detailed frequency-based list, as well as alphabetical and part-of-speech indices.... Read more

Chapter 1 Frequency Listing  Chapter 2 Japanese Alphabetical Listing  Chapter 3 Part-of-Speech Listing  Chapter 4 Frequency Lists of Different Word Source Types.

Biography

Yukio Tono is Professor at the Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Kikuo Maekawa is Professor at the Department of Corpus Studies, the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.

Makoto Yamazaki is Associate Professor at the Department of Corpus Studies, the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.