A Descriptive Grammar of Early Old Japanese Prose (Brill's Japanese Studies Library): 15 - Hardcover

Bentley, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004123083 ISBN 13: 9789004123083

Publisher: Brill, 2001

Synopsis

The oldest written stage of the Japanese language forms the subject of John Bentley\'s important volume. The underlying texts (also presented here) are those of the religious liturgies (norito) and imperial edicts (A.D. 685). Part one deals with the liturgies, the writing system, texts, and phonology and the dating problem. The main chapters of the book are a description of nominals, verbs, verbal suffixes, auxiliary verbs, particles, and conjunctions. A chapter on the lexicon, detailing many hapax legomena and interesting words, makes this into a major reference work on early Japanese.

About this title

Review:

'...broadly documented, it furnishes a wide view of what has been done by Japanese and western scholarship on this subject...'
Maria Chiara Migliore, Comptes Rendus, 2004.

About the Author:

John R. Bentley, Ph.D. (1999) in Japanese Language, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, is Assistant Professor of Japanese at Northern Illinois University. He has published various articles on the Japanese and Korean languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 9004123083
• ISBN 13: 9789004123083
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304