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Azuma Old Japanese : A Comparative Grammar and Reconstruction / John Kupchik.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] ; 40Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (XXXIV, 522 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783111078441
  • 9783111078939
  • 9783111078793
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 016.37 23/eng/20240110
LOC classification:
  • LB1576 .K873 2023
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Glossing conventions -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sound change, reconstruction, and subgrouping -- 3 Vowel elision, rendaku, and assimilations -- 4 Lexicon -- 5 Nominals -- 6 Adjectives and adjectival verbs -- 7 Verbs -- 8 Adverbs -- 9 Conjunctions -- 10 Particles -- Appendix A – A classification of poems in MYS Book 14 based on linguistic features -- References -- Index
Summary: 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.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Glossing conventions -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sound change, reconstruction, and subgrouping -- 3 Vowel elision, rendaku, and assimilations -- 4 Lexicon -- 5 Nominals -- 6 Adjectives and adjectival verbs -- 7 Verbs -- 8 Adverbs -- 9 Conjunctions -- 10 Particles -- Appendix A – A classification of poems in MYS Book 14 based on linguistic features -- References -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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