Yamada Yoshio

Japanese linguist
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroJapanese linguist
PlacesJapan
wasLinguist
Work fieldLiterature Social science
Gender
Male
Birth20 August 1873, Toyama, Japan
Death20 November 1958 (aged 85 years)
Star signLeo
Awards
Order of Culture1957
Person of Cultural Merit1953
The details

Biography

Yamada Yoshio (山田 孝雄, August 20, 1873 – November 20, 1958) was a Japanese linguist. He founded the influential "Yamada grammar", and was the first to use the word "chinjutsu" as a linguistic term.

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