Azuma Old Japanese: A Comparative Grammar and Reconstruction

John Kupchik

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2023

Azuma Old Japanese

A Comparative Grammar and Reconstruction

John Kupchik

Volume 40 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111078793

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About this book

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.

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John Kupchik, Auckland, New Zealand.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Glossing conventions Publicly Available Download PDF	XXIX
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XXXI
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Sound change, reconstruction, and subgrouping Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3 Vowel elision, rendaku, and assimilations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
4 Lexicon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
5 Nominals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
6 Adjectives and adjectival verbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
7 Verbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
8 Adverbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
9 Conjunctions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
10 Particles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	441
Appendix A – A classification of poems in MYS Book 14 based on linguistic features Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	519

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Specialists in Japanese (or Japonic) Linguistics, Historical Linguists, Specialists in Japanese Literature.
Pages
- Front matter: 34
- Main content: 522
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Coloured Illustrations: 1
- Tables: 292
Keywords: Japonic Languages; Historical Linguistics; Japanese Dialects; Language Documentation

eBook

Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783111078793

Hardcover

Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783111078441