A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese

Part 1: Phonology, Script, Lexicon and Nominals
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-901903-14-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Languages of Asia

This is the first detailed descriptive grammar in English (indeed, in any language other than Japanese) dedicated to the Western Old Japanese, which was spoken in the Kansai region of Japan during the seventh and eighth centuries. The grammar is divided into two volumes, with the first volume dealing with sources, script, phonology, lexicon and nominals. The second volume focuses on adjectives, verbs, adverbs, particles and conjunctions. In addition to descriptive data, the grammar also includes comparisons between Western Old Japanese and Eastern Old Japanese and Ryukyuan, together with a critical analysis of various external parallels.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vovin, Alexander

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Charts; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Preface; 1 Sources and Previous Scholarship; 2 Script and Phonology; 3 Lexicon; 4 Nominals; Bibliography

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).