A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese: Adjectives, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions, particles, postpositions

Alexander Vovin

Global Oriental, 2009 - Foreign Language Study - 1369 pages

Together with Part 1 of the same grammar (Sources, Script and Phonology, Lexicon and Nominals), this two-volume set represents the most detailed and exhaustive description ever done of any language, including Japanese of the Old Japanese language of the Yamato region during the Asuka Nara period.

About the author

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).

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese: Adjectives, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions, particles, postpositions; Part 2 of A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese, Alexander Vovin; Languages of Asia series
• Author: Alexander Vovin
• Editor: Alexander Vovin
• Publisher: Global Oriental, 2009
• ISBN: 190524682X, 9781905246823
• Length: 1369 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / Japanese; History / Asia / Japan; Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & Punctuation