J. Marshall Unger

James Marshall Unger, (born May 28, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio), is a professor of Japanese at Ohio State University who specializes in historical linguistics and the writing systems of East Asia.

Works

* "Studies in Early Japanese Morphophonemics" (Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1977; 2nd ed. 1993)
* With F. C. Lorish, M. Noda, Y. Wada "A Framework for Introductory Japanese Language Curricula in American High Schools and Colleges" (Washington, D.C.: National Foreign Language Center, 1993)
* "The Fifth Generation Fallacy" (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987)
* "Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan" (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996)
* "Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning" (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004)