ENGLISHJAPANESE

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese: Part 2: Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Conjunctions, Particles, Postpositions

By Alexander Vovin

Book information

Publisher
BRILL/Global Oriental
Year
2008
ISBN
190524682X, 9781905246823
Language
englishjapanese
Format
PDF
Filesize
30 MB (31497993 bytes)
Series
The Languages of Asia
Edition
1
Pages
988\986
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Time added
2015-01-12 08:33:24
Языки и языкознание;Японский язык;Грамматика

Description

Together with part 1 of the same grammar (Sources, Script and Phonology, Lexicon and Nominals), this two-volume set represents the most detailed and exhaustive description ever done of any language, including Japanese of the Old Japanese language of the Yamato region during the Asuka Nara period. It presents hundreds of examples drawn not only from the major Old Japanese texts such as the Man'yoshu, the Senmyo, the Kojiki kayo and the Nihonshoki kayo but also from all minor extant texts such as the Fudoky kayo, the Bussoku seki ka, and others. It also includes comparative material from Eastern Old Japanese once spoken in the area roughly corresponding to present-day southern Chubu and Kanto regions, as well as from Ryukyuan and occasionally from other surrounding languages. Part 2 is accompanied by exhaustive and cumulative indexes to both volumes, including separate indexes on all grammatical forms described, linguistic forms, personal names, as well as an index of all Old Japanese texts that are used as examples in the description.

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