Alexander Vovin

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese

Part 2: Adjectives, Verbs, Conjunctions, Particles, Postpositions, Indexes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 992
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 147mm x 61mm
• Gewicht: 1338g
• ISBN-13: 9781905246823
• ISBN-10: 190524682X
• Artikelnr.: 23886106

Autorenporträt

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).