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OXFORD ‘UNIVERSITY PRESSE Great Clarendon Sweet, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford it furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbaume Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi # $40 Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Oxford is a registered uademark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York ‘© Oxford University Press 2003 First published 2003 All tights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scape of the abave should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer Boitish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available ISBN 0-19-860382-7 10987654321 Typeset by Graphicraft Limited, Hong Kong Printed in Great Britain by Clays Lid, Bungay, Susfolk ; " Preface %. Acknowledgements Parts of speech Topic, comment, and predicate In-group and out-group Style ety Verbs Adjectives. Adverbs Nouns Conjunctions and conjunctive particles Particles Auxiliary suffixes The 2 - @+& + & group af wards Numbers, counters, time, dates Nominalization: the nominalizer @ and the noun < & Keigo Interrogatives Perspective and pronouns Punctuation and script terms Glossary of grammatical terms Appendices Hiragana chart Katakana chart Word endings for finding the dictionary form English index Japanese index Contents |

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