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Informationen zum Autor Haruo Shirane Klappentext Written by a leading scholar in the field, Classical Japanese: A Grammar is an elegant, comprehensive, and practical guide to classical Japanese. Extensive notes and historical explanations make this volume useful as both a reference for advanced students and a textbook for beginning students.Classical Japanese ( bungo) was used to write Japanese for more thirteen hundred years, until World War II. The volume, which explains how classical Japanese is related to modern Japanese, includes. Detailed explanations of basic grammar, including helpful, easy-to-use tables of grammatical forms. Annotated excerpts from classical premodern texts, with accompanying grammar and vocabulary notes. Exercises and an answer booklet. Detailed explanations of honorific expressions. Appendixes on sound changes, prefixes, and suffixes, rhetorical techniques, and auxiliary verb combinations Zusammenfassung Written by a leading scholar in the field! Classical Japanese: A Grammar is an elegant! comprehensive! and practical guide to classical Japanese. Extensive notes and historical explanations make this volume useful as both a reference for advanced students and a textbook for beginning students. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Elements of the Book Grammatical Terms and Translations Major Historical Periods Romanization Source and Text Abbreviations Translations of Ranks and Titles Part I Inflected Forms 1. Basic Grammatical Terms and Concepts 1.1 Subject and Predicate 1.2 Sentence Structure 1.3 Autonomous and Dependent Forms 1.4 Inflected and Noninflected Forms 1.5 Inflected Autonomous Words 1.6 Inflected Dependent Forms 1.7 Noninflected Dependent Forms 1.8 Noninflected Autonomous Words 1.9 Modifying Words 1.10 Parts of Speech 2. Orthography and Pronunciation 2.1 Table of Fifty Sounds 2.2 Voiced Sounds 2.3 Sound Changes 2.4 Pronouncing Historical kana 2.4.1 w-Row Pronunciation 2.4.2 h-Row Pronunciation 2.5 Pronouncing Long Sounds 3. Verbs 3.1 The Six Inflected Forms 3.2 Regular Verbs 4. Irregular Verbs 4.2 Transitive and Intransitive Verbs 4.3 Supplementary Verbs 4.4 Sound Changes in Verbs 5. Adjectives and Adjectival Verbs 5.1 Adjectives 5.2 Adjectival Verbs 5.3 Two Modifying Functions 6. Negative and Recollective Auxiliary Verbs 6.1 Negative zu 6.2 Auxiliary Verbs ki and keri 7. Perfective and Continuative Auxiliary Verbs 7.1 Auxiliary Verbs nu and tsu 7.2 Resultative-Continuative Auxiliary Verbs tari and ri 8. Copular Auxiliary Verbs 9. Auxiliary Verbs of Speculation and Supposition 9.1 mu 9.2 muzu 9.3 kemu 9.4 ramu 9.5 rashi 9.6 mashi 9.7 beshi 9.8 meri 9.9 Hearsay nari 9.10 Summary of the Basic Functions of Speculative Auxiliary Verbs 10. Negative Speculative, Desirative, and Comparative Auxiliary Verbs 10.1 Negative Speculative Auxiliary Verbs ji and maji 10.2 Desirative Auxiliary Verbs tashi and mahoshi 10.3 Comparative Auxiliary Verb gotoshi 11. Passive-Causative Auxiliary Verbs 11.1 ru, raru 11.2 su, sasu, shimu 11.3 Summary of Auxiliary Verbs Part II Noninflected Forms 12. Case Particles 12.1 ga 12.2 no 12.3 o 12.3A o-ba 12.4 ni 12.5 e 12.6 to 12.7 yori 12.8 kara 12.8A kara-ni 12.9 shite 12.10 nite 13. Conjunctive Particles 13.1 ba 13.2 to, tomo 13.3 do, domo 13.4 ni, o 13.5 ga 13.6 te, shite 13.6A zu-te 13.6B te-wa 13.6C Conjunctive Particle te plus Supplementary Verb 13.7 de 13.8 tsutsu 13.9 nagara 13.10 mono-o, mono-kara, mono-no, mono-yue 13.11 Summary of Connections 14. Bound Particles 14.1 wa 14.2 mo 14.2A mo at the End of a Sentence 14.3 zo 14.3A zo at the End of a Sentence 14.4 namu (nan) 14.5 ya (yawa) 14.5A ya (yawa) at the ...
