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A Reference Grammar Of Classical Japanese Prose
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Book Synopsis A Reference Grammar of Classical Japanese Prose by : Alexander Vovin
Download or read book A Reference Grammar of Classical Japanese Prose written by Alexander Vovin and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This complete description of the language of the golden Heian period (794-1185) features an innovative morphological analysis to facilitate reference usage and provides a comprehensive reference work for students of classical Japanese.
Book Synopsis A Descriptive Grammar of Early Old Japanese Prose by : John R. Bentley
Download or read book A Descriptive Grammar of Early Old Japanese Prose written by John R. Bentley and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides important new information detailing the orthography, phonology, morphology, and lexicon of a previously poorly studied and understood stage of the Japanese language, Early Old Japanese prose.
Book Synopsis The Idea of Writing by : Alex de Voogt
Download or read book The Idea of Writing written by Alex de Voogt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of the versatility of writing systems highlights their complexity when used for more than one language. The approaches of authors from different academic traditions provide a varied and expert account.
Book Synopsis A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (2 vols) by : Alexander Vovin
Download or read book A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (2 vols) written by Alexander Vovin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the revised, updated and enlarged second edition of the first detailed descriptive grammar in English dedicated to the Western Old Japanese. The grammar is divided into two volumes, with the first volume dealing with sources, script, phonology, lexicon, nominals and adjectives. The second volume focuses on verbs, adverbs, particles, conjunctions and interjections.
Book Synopsis Compendium of the World's Languages by : George L. Campbell
Download or read book Compendium of the World's Languages written by George L. Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 1984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of Compendium of the World’s Languages has been thoroughly revised to provide up-to-date and accurate descriptions of a wide selection of natural language systems. All cultural and historical notes as well as statistical data have been checked, updated and in many cases expanded. Presenting an even broader range of languages and language families, including new coverage of Australian aboriginal languages and expanded treatment of North American and African languages, this new edition offers a total of 342 entries over nearly 2000 pages. Key features include: Complete rewriting, systematization and regularisation of the phonology sections Provision of IPA symbol grids arranged by articulatory feature and by alphabetic resemblance to facilitate use of the new phonology sections Expansion of morphology descriptions for most major languages Provision of new illustrative text samples Addition of a glossary of technical terms and an expanded bibliography Comparative tables of the numerals 1-10 in a representative range of languages, and also grouped by family Drawing upon a wealth of recent developments and research in language typology and broadened availability of descriptive data, this new incarnation of George Campbell’s astounding Compendium brings a much-loved survey emphatically into the twenty-first century for a new generation of readers. Scholarly, comprehensive and highly accessible, Compendium of the World’s Languages remains the ideal reference for all interested linguists and professionals alike.
Book Synopsis A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese by : Alexander Vovin
Download or read book A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese written by Alexander Vovin and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A History of the Japanese Language by : Bjarke Frellesvig
Download or read book A History of the Japanese Language written by Bjarke Frellesvig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bjarke Frellesvig describes the development of the Japanese language from its recorded beginnings until the present day as reflected by the written sources and historical record. Beginning with a description of the oldest attested stage of the language, Old Japanese (approximately the eighth century AD), and then tracing the changes which occurred through the Early Middle Japanese (800–1200), Late Middle Japanese (1200–1600) and the Modern Japanese (1600–onwards) periods, a complete internal history of the language is examined and discussed. This account provides a comprehensive study of how the Japanese language has developed and adapted, providing a much needed resource for scholars. A History of the Japanese Language is invaluable to all those interested in the Japanese language and also students of language change generally.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Classical Japanese by : 駒井明
Download or read book An Introduction to Classical Japanese written by 駒井明 and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics by : Prashant Pardeshi
Download or read book Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics written by Prashant Pardeshi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics is a unique publication that brings together insights from three traditions—Japanese linguistics, linguistic typology and contrastive linguistics—and makes important contributions to deepening our understanding of various phenomena in Japanese as well other languages of the globe. Its primary goal is to uncover principled similarities and differences between Japanese and other languages of the globe and thereby shed new light on the universal as well as language-particular properties of Japanese. The issues addressed by the papers in this volume cover a wide spectrum of phenomena ranging from lexical to syntactic and discourse levels. The authors of the chapters, leading scholars in their respective field of research, present the state-of-the-art research from their respected field.
Download or read book Superparticles written by Moreno Mitrović and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is all about the captivating ability that the human language has to express intricately logical (mathematical) meanings using tiny (microsemantic) morphemes as utilities. Languages mark meanings with identical inferences using identical particles and these particles thus creep up in a wide array of expressions. Because of their multi-tasking capacity to express seemingly disparate meanings, they are dubbed Superparticles. These particles are perfect windows into the interlock of several grammatical modules and the nature of the interaction of these modules through time. With a firm footing in the module where grammatical bones are built and assembled (narrow morpho-syntax), superparticles acquire varied interpretation (in the conceptual-intentional module – semantics) depending on the structure they fea- ture in. What is more, some of the interpretations these particles trigger are inferential and belong, under the standard account, to the realm of pragmatics. How can such tiny particles, rarely exceeding a syllable of sound, have such powerful and over-arching effects across the inter-modular grammatical space? This is the Platonic background against which this book is set.
Book Synopsis The Eastern Old Japanese Corpus and Dictionary by : Alexander Vovin
Download or read book The Eastern Old Japanese Corpus and Dictionary written by Alexander Vovin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents for the first time all texts constituting the Eastern Old Japanese corpus as well as the dictionary including all lexical items found. Unlike its relative Western Old Japanese, Eastern Old Japanese is not based on the language of just two geographic localities, but is stretched along several provinces of Ancient Japan along the Pacific Seaboard (modern Aichi to Ibaraki) and across the island of Honshū from Etchū (Modern Toyama and parts of Ishikawa) province to Shinano and Kai provinces (modern Nagano and Yamanashi). Therefore, references to places of attestation are included into our dictionary, too.
Book Synopsis Azuma Old Japanese by : John Kupchik
Download or read book Azuma Old Japanese written by John Kupchik and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Azuma Old Japanese is an areal term for the two major dialects of Eastern (‘Azuma’) Japan during the eighth century: Eastern Old Japanese and Töpo-Suruga Old Japanese. This volume is an exhaustive, comparative reference grammar based on the linguistic data contained in the Man’yōshū poetic anthology (759 CE). It contains chapters dedicated to the different lexical categories, the lexicon, the phonology, and the historical development. This volume serves to fill the last remaining gap in English language scholarship on the grammar of premodern Japanese dialects, and significantly contributes to our understanding of the historical development of the earliest attested Japanese dialects. It also contains an extensive reconstruction of Proto-Japanese.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Japanese Linguistics by : Yoko Hasegawa
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Japanese Linguistics written by Yoko Hasegawa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The linguistic study of Japanese, with its rich syntactic and phonological structure, complex writing system, and diverse sociohistorical context, is a rapidly growing research area. This book, designed to serve as a concise reference for researchers interested in the Japanese language and in typological studies of language in general, explores diverse characteristics of Japanese that are particularly intriguing when compared with English and other European languages. It pays equal attention to the theoretical aspects and empirical phenomena from theory-neutral perspectives, and presents necessary theoretical terms in clear and easy language. It consists of five thematic parts including sound system and lexicon, grammatical foundation and constructions, and pragmatics/sociolinguistics topics, with chapters that survey critical discussions arising in Japanese linguistics. The Cambridge Handbook of Japanese Linguistics will be welcomed by general linguists, and students and scholars working in linguistic typology, Japanese language, Japanese linguistics and Asian Studies.
Book Synopsis Diachrony of Personal Pronouns in Japanese by : Osamu Ishiyama
Download or read book Diachrony of Personal Pronouns in Japanese written by Osamu Ishiyama and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal pronouns in Japanese form a heterogeneous category. This book investigates their historical development from a functional perspective. It shows that while nouns give rise to personal pronouns through semanticization of pragmatic inferences, the use of non-nominal forms such as demonstratives and reflexives for person referents can be resolved within their original functions, offering little reason to treat them as personal pronouns. The cross-linguistic investigation into the common sources of personal pronouns reveals that the development of personal pronouns from nouns is largely consistent with grammaticalization, but that of forms of non-nominal origins requires separate mechanisms such as spatial/empathetic perspectives and displacement of semantic features for politeness, showing that a one-size-fits-all approach to diachrony of personal pronouns is not sufficient. This book will be of special interest to researchers and students in historical linguistics, pragmatics, and Japanese linguistics, who take a functional view of language.
Download or read book Man’yōshū (Book 18) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book eighteen of the Man’yōshū (‘Anthology of Myriad Leaves’) continues Alexander Vovin’s new English translation of this 20-volume work originally compiled between c.759 and 785 AD. It is the earliest Japanese poetic anthology in existence and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka and Nara periods. Book eighteen is the sixth volume of the Man’yōshū to be published to date (following books fifteen (2009), five (2011), fourteen (2012), twenty (2013) and seventeen (2016). Each volume of the Vovin translation contains the original text, kana transliteration, romanization, glossing and commentary.
Download or read book Man’yōshū (Book 2) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book two of the Man’yōshū (‘Anthology of Myriad Leaves’) continues Alexander Vovin’s new English translation of this 20-volume work originally compiled between c.759 and 785 AD. It is the earliest Japanese poetic anthology in existence and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka and Nara periods.
Download or read book Man’yōshū (Book 17) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book seventeen of the Man’yōshῡ (‘Anthology of Myriad Leaves’) continues Alexander Vovin’s new English translation of this 20-volume work originally compiled between c.759 and 782 AD. It is the earliest Japanese poetic anthology in existence and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka and Nara periods. Book seventeen is the fifth volume of the Man’yōshῡ to be published to date (following books fifteen (2009), five (2011), fourteen (2012) and twenty (2013)). Each volume of the Vovin translation contains the original text, kana transliteration, romanization, glossing and commentary.
