About the Author

Samuel E. Martin received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Oriental languages from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale University. A member of the Yale University faculty since 1950, he has served as chairman of the Department of East and South Asian Languages and Literatures, and the Department of Linguistics. The author of a large number of well-received books and papers on Japanese and Korean, Martin has also been a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Teachers of Japanese and has served on the editorial board of Papers in Japanese Linguistics.

Reviews

"By far the most comprehensive reference grammar of Japanese in the English language (and perhaps in any language)."