This work is the first complete description of the language of the golden Heian period (794-1185) to be published in English. It presents an innovative morphological analysis arranged so as to facilitate reference usage and at long last provides a comprehensive reference work for learners and advanced students of classical Japanese. Each linguistic aspect and function, from particles to verb forms, is described in full and illustrated with copious examples. Free of linguistic jargon, the book is accessible not only to students of the language, but also to specialists in literature, history and culture. It features introductory sections on the historical and literary background, and on writing and phonology, a cross-referenced appendix of classical Japanese verb forms, and a detailed index.
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Born in 1961, Alexander Vovin received his Ph.D. in Japanese Linguistics from St. Petersburg (Leningrad) State University. Since 1997 he has been Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Hawaii, USA. His main areas of research interest are the history of Japanese, Korean, Ainu and Altaic languages.
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In CE 784 the Japanese capital was moved from Nara to Nagaoka, and then in 794 it was moved again from Nagaoka to Heian-kyo, 'The Capital of Peace and Tranquillity', present-day Kyoto, where it was to stay for more than a thousand years until 1868 when the young Emperor Meiji moved it to Edo, present-day Tokyo. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tentative refers, hiragana sign, labial lenition, other palatalized consonants, honorific auxiliaries, honorific auxiliary, morphonological rules, transliteration convention, attributive form, palatalized stop, vowel verbs, genitive case marker, final predicate, quality verbs, consonant verbs, tentative makes, predication form, causative marker, independent verb, form transliteration, subject marker, independent usage, nominalized form, honorific prefix, verbal suffixes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Classical Japanese, Old Japanese, Second Ward, Meeting Slope, Middle Chinese, Third Prince, Ikeda Tadashi, Heir Apparent, Middle Korean, Mount Hiei, Abe-no Mimurazi, Captain of the Right, Qin Prince, Tai-zong of Tang, Tau-no Tai-sou, Tokieda Motoki, Ariwara-no Narihira, Eastern Pavilion, Modem Japanese, Nikolai Syromiatnikov, Nine Steps, Ofotomo-no Miyuki, Prince Isitukuri, Third Ward, Tsukishima Hiroshi New!
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In CE 784 the Japanese capital was moved from Nara to Nagaoka, and then in 794 it was moved again from Nagaoka to Heian-kyo, 'The Capital of Peace and Tranquillity', present-day Kyoto, where it was to stay for more than a thousand years until 1868 when the young Emperor Meiji moved it to Edo, present-day Tokyo. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tentative refers, hiragana sign, labial lenition, other palatalized consonants, honorific auxiliaries, honorific auxiliary, morphonological rules, transliteration convention, attributive form, palatalized stop, vowel verbs, genitive case marker, final predicate, quality verbs, consonant verbs, tentative makes, predication form, causative marker, independent verb, form transliteration, subject marker, independent usage, nominalized form, honorific prefix, verbal suffixes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Classical Japanese, Old Japanese, Second Ward, Meeting Slope, Middle Chinese, Third Prince, Ikeda Tadashi, Heir Apparent, Middle Korean, Mount Hiei, Abe-no Mimurazi, Captain of the Right, Qin Prince, Tai-zong of Tang, Tau-no Tai-sou, Tokieda Motoki, Ariwara-no Narihira, Eastern Pavilion, Modem Japanese, Nikolai Syromiatnikov, Nine Steps, Ofotomo-no Miyuki, Prince Isitukuri, Third Ward, Tsukishima Hiroshi New!
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- History of Writing in Japan by Christopher Seeley in Back Matter
- A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu (Brill's Japanese Studies Library) by Alexander V. Vovin in Front Matter
- Historical Grammar of Japanese by G. B. Sansom in Back Matter
- The Japanese Language Through Time (Yale Language Series) by Samuel E. Martin in Back Matter
- Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction by Marc Hideo Miyake on page 20
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