A Descriptive Grammar of Early Old Japanese Prose

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-04-12308-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Brill's Japanese Studies Library

The oldest written stage of the Japanese language forms the subject of John Bentley’s important new volume. The underlying texts (also presented here) are those of the religious liturgies (norito) and imperial edicts (A.D. 685). Part one deals with the liturgies, the writing system, texts, and phonology and the dating problem. The main chapters of the book are a description of nominals, verbs, verbal suffixes, auxiliary verbs, particles, and conjunctions. A chapter on the lexicon, detailing many hapax legomena and interesting words, makes this into a major reference work on early Japanese.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bentley, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

John R. Bentley, Ph.D. (1999) in Japanese Language, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, is Assistant Professor of Japanese at Northern Illinois University. He has published various articles on the Japanese and Korean languages.