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Paperback: 760 pages
Publisher: The Japan Time; First Edition 1995, 35th Printing 2008 edition (2008)
The key to any worthwhile grammar dictionary is a stock of example sentences. Beyond delineating the mechanics and meanings of grammar points, this series features a font of examples which provide natural context for expression and stem any doubts about usage. Its Japanese and English indices allow for timely classification and identification of structures, useful both for translation of Japanese text sources as well as sophisticated expression of novel ideas in Japanese. Together with its two companion dictionaries, Makino and Tsutsui's series offers an exhaustive and authoritative synopsis of Japanese grammar.
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This dictionary of grammar is just amazing! It has so many examples on the grammar points and all of the grammar is neatly organized in alphabetical order. This is one of the absolute best books that I have gotten to help me learn Japanese and I highly recommend this for any Japanese learner studying intermediate Japanese grammar! ^-^
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I also endorse this dictionary with some considerable exceptions. First, and foremost, the example sentences provided are entirely devoid of a specified context. Any language instructor worth his/her salt understands that it is not so much learning to say things in the language as it is "learning to do in a language" (Galal Walker). Thus, it would be of more worth to have the example sentences couched within specified contexts to allow learners to learn to use them within those constraints.
Second, this book is targeted at an intermediate audience and yet the fact that it has eliminated the romanized text from the examples sentences doubles the difficulty inherent in the task of learning new grammar. It essentially causes the example sentences to become vocabulary and kanji acquisition tasks on top of the grammatical acquisition task it promotes.
These weaknesses being considered, I still heartily endorse this book and the other two in the series as they are perhaps the most comprehensive compilation of Japanese grammar items available. The hallmark of each book is not only the vastness of the items introduced and discussed in the series, but also the in-depth analyses given regarding the subtle differences between semantically similar grammatical items (e.g. node and kara).
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