Diachrony, Synchrony, and Typology of Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese

This book reconstructs the synchronic system of tense and aspect in Old Japanese. Watanabe takes a fundamentally different approach from previous analyses by examining the syntactic distribution of temporal suffixes in Many¿sh¿, an eighth-century poetry collection.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Tense and Aspect
Chapter 2: -(ye)ri, -kyeri, and -ki
Chapter 3: -tu and -nu
Chapter 4: -tari and other emerging markers
Chapter 5: Beyond the Man'yoshu
References
About the Author

About the author

Kazuha Watanabe is associate professor and coordinator of the Japanese program in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at California State University, Fullerton.

Summary

This book reconstructs the synchronic system of tense and aspect in Old Japanese. Watanabe takes a fundamentally different approach from previous analyses by examining the syntactic distribution of temporal suffixes in Manyoshu, an eighth-century poetry collection.

Product details

• Authors: Kazuha Watanabe
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781793614421
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-442-1
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Japanese, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Japanese, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Historical and comparative linguistics