A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese

Part 2: Adjectives, Verbs, Conjunctions, Particles, Postpositions, Indexes
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-905246-82-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 964 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 1338 g

Reihe: Languages of Asia

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vovin, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Charts; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Preface; Revised Manyogana Chart; Important Note on Western Old Japanese; Phonology; Second person Pronoun Ore; 5 Adjectives; 6 Verbs; 7 Adverbs; 8 Conjunctions; 9 Particles; 10 Postpositions; Bibliography; Index of Personal Names; Index of Terms; Index of Examples from Texts; Index of Forms and Constructions

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Vovin, Professor of East Asian Languages at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, has published extensively on Japanese, Ainu, Korean and Tungusic, as well as other languages of East and Inner Asia. Among his major works are A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu (Brill, 1993), A Reference Grammar of Classical Japanese Prose (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) and Nihongo Keitoron no Genzai/Perspectives on the Origins of the Japanese Language (co-edited with Osada Toshiki, the International Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, 2003).