Classical Japanese: A Grammar

Haruo Shirane

Columbia University Press, Aug 13, 2013 - Foreign Language Study - 296 pages

Classical Japanese: A Grammar is a 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. 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; and exercises and an answer booklet.

Contents

• III: xxv
• IV: 2
• VI: 4
• VII: 6
• VIII: 9
• IX: 11
• X: 12
• XII: 13
• XIII: 14
• XIV: 15
• XV: 16
• XVI: 17
• XVII: 18
• XIX: 19
• XX: 20
• XXII: 22
• XXVI: 23
• XXVII: 24
• XXVIII: 25
• XXIX: 26
• XXX: 28
• XXXI: 30
• XXXII: 32
• XXXIII: 35
• XXXIV: 37
• XXXV: 40
• XXXVI: 42
• XXXVII: 44
• XXXVIII: 45
• XXXIX: 46
• XLI: 47
• XLII: 48
• XLV: 50
• XLVI: 51
• XLVII: 53
• XLIX: 54
• L: 55
• LI: 57
• LII: 60
• LIV: 61
• LV: 62
• LVII: 63
• LIX: 64
• LX: 66
• LXIII: 69
• LXIV: 71
• LXV: 74
• LXVI: 75
• LXVIII: 77
• LXIX: 80
• LXXI: 83
• LXXII: 86
• LXXIV: 89
• LXXV: 92
• LXXVI: 97
• LXXVII: 98
• LXXVIII: 101
• LXXIX: 105
• LXXX: 107
• LXXXI: 110
• LXXXII: 115
• LXXXIII: 116
• LXXXIV: 119
• LXXXV: 121
• LXXXIX: 123
• XC: 128
• XCII: 130
• XCIII: 132
• XCV: 134
• XCVII: 138
• XCIX: 145
• C: 149
• CI: 153
• CII: 156
• CIII: 157
• CIV: 159
• CV: 160
• CVI: 164
• CVIII: 168
• CIX: 169
• CX: 170
• CXI: 171
• CXII: 173
• CXIII: 176
• CXVI: 178
• CXVII: 180
• CXVIII: 182
• CXIX: 185
• CXX: 187
• CXXI: 189
• CXXIII: 190
• CXXIV: 191
• CXXV: 192
• CXXVI: 193
• CXXVII: 195
• CXXVIII: 197
• CXXIX: 199
• CXXXII: 201
• CXXXIII: 202
• CXXXIV: 205
• CXXXVI: 207
• CXXXVII: 209
• CXXXVIII: 210
• CXXXIX: 211
• CXL: 212
• CXLI: 213
• CXLII: 215
• CXLIII: 218
• CXLIV: 219
• CXLVII: 220
• CXLVIII: 222
• CXLIX: 224
• CL: 226
• CLI: 229
• CLII: 231
• CLIII: 233
• CLIV: 235
• CLV: 236
• CLVIII: 237
• CLIX: 238
• CLX: 239
• CLXI: 240
• CLXII: 241
• CLXIII: 242
• CLXIV: 243
• CLXV: 244
• CLXVI: 245
• CLXVII: 246
• CLXVIII: 247
• CLXIX: 248
• CLXX: 249
• CLXXI: 250
• CLXXII: 251
• CLXXIII: 252
• CLXXIV: 253
• CLXXVII: 254
• CLXXIX: 257
• CLXXX: 258
• CLXXXI: 261
• CLXXXII: 262
• CLXXXIII: 264
• CLXXXIV: 269
• CLXXXV: 271
• CLXXXVI: 272
• CLXXXVIII: 274
• CLXXXIX: 275
• CXC: 276
• CXCII: 277
• CXCIII: 278
• CXCV: 279
• CXCVI: 280
• CXCVII: 281
• CXCVIII: 282
• CXCIX: 283
• CC: 285
• CCIII: 286
• CCIV: 287
• CCV: 288
• CCVI: 290
• CCVII: 291
• CCVIII: 292
• CCX: 293
• CCXI: 294
• CCXII: 295
• CCXIII: 296
• CCXV: 298
• CCXVI: 299
• CCXVII: 301
• CCXVIII: 303
• CCXIX: 306
• CCXXI: 308
• CCXXII: 310
• CCXXIII: 311
• CCXXV: 312
• CCXXVI: 313
• CCXXVII: 314
• CCXXVIII: 315
• CCXXIX: 316
• CCXXX: 317
• CCXXXI: 318
• CCXXXII: 319
• CCXXXIV: 323
• CCXXXV: 325
• CCXXXVI: 329
• CCXXXVII: 330
• CCXXXVIII: 334
• CCXXXIX: 336
• CCXL: 337
• CCXLIII: 338
• CCXLIV: 339
• CCXLV: 340
• CCXLVIII: 341
• CCL: 342
• CCLIII: 343
• CCLIV: 344
• CCLVI: 346
• CCLVIII: 347
• CCLIX: 348
• CCLXI: 349
• CCLXIII: 350
• CCLXV: 351
• CCLXVI: 352
• CCLXVIII: 353
• CCLXX: 354
• CCLXXI: 355
• CCLXXIII: 356
• CCLXXIV: 357
• CCLXXVI: 358
• CCLXXVII: 359
• CCLXXIX: 362
• CCLXXXII: 363
• CCLXXXIII: 364
• CCLXXXIV: 365
• CCLXXXV: 366
• CCLXXXVI: 367
• CCLXXXVII: 369
• CCLXXXIX: 385
• CCXCII: 386
• CCXCIII: 387
• CCXCIV: 388
• CCXCV: 389
• CCXCVI: 390
• CCXCVII: 391
• CCXCVIII: 392
• CCC: 393
• CCCI: 394
• CCCIV: 395
• CCCV: 396
• CCCVIII: 397
• CCCXI: 398
• CCCXII: 399
• CCCXIV: 403
• CCCXV: 404
• CCCXVI: 407
• CCCXVII: 493
• CCCXVIII: 495
• CCCXX: 496
• CCCXXI: 498
• CCCXXIII: 499
• CCCXXV: 500
• CCCXXVI: 508
• CCCXXVIII: 512

Popular passages

Page 20 - Whenever an st or sp appears in the middle or at the end of a word, it is pronounced as written, st and sp, as in bester, hasten, Leiste, Gast, Ost, Wespe, lispeln.‎

About the author

Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji and Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho; and an editor of Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature and Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600--1900.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Classical Japanese: A Grammar
• Author: Haruo Shirane
• Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0231509464, 9780231509466
• Length: 296 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / Indic Languages; Reference / General