Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
Index to journals, books, dictionaries, dissertations, and conference papers on literature, languages, folklore and linguistics. Includes critical writings on literature and human languages, including both naturallanguages and invented languages, e.g., Esperanto. Citations in a non-Roman alphabet are translated into the Roman alphabet.
Index to Japanese Language Articles on Linguistics and Literature
日本語学論說資料 + previous title 国語学論說資料. These series reprint articles about Japanese language from various publications. There are indexes to each volume and CD-ROM cumulative indexes (see the library cataog). Info: https://library.osu.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Nihongogaku_ronsetsu_shiry%C5%8D
CiNii(Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator, pronounced like "sigh-knee") is a database service which can be searched for academic information of articles, books & Jjournals.
National Diet Library's search system for books, articles, theses, news, and digitized materials within its holdings as well as throughout Japan, aggregating access to many databases and web sites.
MAGAZINEPLUS: Index to articles in Japanese general interest and scholarly magazines/journals and other academic publications; BOOKPLUS: index of Japanese books published since 1925; and other databases.
日本語学論說資料 + previous title 国語学論說資料. These series reprint articles about Japanese language from various publications. There are indexes to each volume and CD-ROM cumulative indexes (see the library cataog). Info: https://library.osu.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Nihongogaku_ronsetsu_shiry%C5%8D
This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working in Japan. Unlike textbooks written primarily for students, whose content largely centers on student life, this book focuses more on social and professional life beyond school.
As a beginning level textbook, this book includes many elementary grammar patterns (Japanese Language Proficiency Test Levels 5 and 4), but the vocabulary and situations are selected specifically for working adults. Explanations are kept concise so as to only cover key points. The main focus is on oral communication and the accompanying audio is to be used extensively. This textbook can be used for self-study, as part of an online course, or as a traditional college course.
This textbook is designed for students who have intermediate competency in Japanese, roughly at Level 2 on the ILR (The Interagency Language Roundtable) proficiency scale, and are working on reaching Level 3.
This textbook can be used for self-study, as part of online course, and in a traditional classroom setting. It is comprised of four chapters, intended to be covered in one term of a quarter system.
Romanization Standards
The libraries follow the romanization standards used in the Library of Congress
Consists of fully searchable and browsable databases including English-Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries, Encyclopedia Nipponica and Encyclopedia of Japan, articles published in a weekly magazine Ekonomisuto, collection of Toyo bunko series and other visual and sound databases.
The database provides digital publications (books, periodicals, articles, etc.) NDL took out and archived from the websites of Japanese ministries and agencies. Major publications such as White Papers are accessible via this website (English version of the website is available)
Research Navi is a platform for providing information to the general public. It introduces reference materials, websites, databases, information on related organizations, etc. in accordance with specific subjects or material groups.
Archives the whole websites of public organizations in Japan since 2002. Note: major publications such as White Papers and official bulletins of prefectures are archived in the NDL Digital Collections instead.