A Descriptive And Comparative Grammar Of Western Old Japanese - Sources, Script And Phonology, Lexicon And Nominals

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext This is the first detailed descriptive grammar in English (indeed, 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 dealing with sources, script, phonology, lexicon and nominals.

Product details

• Authors: Vovin, Alexander Vovin
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2006
• EAN: 9781901903140
• ISBN: 978-1-901903-14-0
• No. of pages: 412
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Languages of Northern and Cent; Languages of Asia; Languages of Northern and Cent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics