William McClure

William McClure is assistant professor in the Department of Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages at Queens College and the Program in Linguistics at the Graduate Center. He directs the Japanese language program at Queens College, and is the author of Using Japanese: A Guide to Contemporary Usage (Cambridge 2000). His work appears as well in journals such as Language Sciences and the Journal of East Asian Linguistics.

Dr McClure is currently organizing the 12th Japanese and Korean Linguistics Conference which will be held at the CUNY Graduate Center on November 1-3, 2002.

Using -wa in Japanese and in English

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https://youtu.be/DB3aLf_6CbU One of the most difficult tasks of teaching Japanese to English speakers is the explanation of wa. Linguists are always trying to find systematic or consistent ways of explaining what something means. For those who don’t speak Japanese, wa is a sentence particle that goes on the topic of the sentence, telling someone what … Read more