Azuma Old Japanese - A Comparative Grammar and Reconstruction

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'y shu 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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: John Kupchik
• Edition: De Gruyter
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.01.2025
• EAN: 9783112215104
• ISBN: 978-3-11-221510-4
• Pages: 522
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 33 mm x 230 mm
• Poids: 815 g
• Illustrations: 5 b/w and 1 col. ill., 292 b/w tbl.
• Thème: Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC]
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Autres langues / Autres littératures; Grammatik, Syntax und Morphologie, Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, FOR000000 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Language Documentation, Japanese Dialects, Japonic Languages