John Kupchik, "Azuma Old Japanese: A Comparative Grammar and Reconstruction "
English | ISBN: 3111078442 | 2023 | 517 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 3111078442 | 2023 | 517 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Azuma Old Japanese is an areal term for the two major dialects of Eastern ('Azuma') Japan during the eighth century: Eastern Old Japanese and Töpo-Suruga Old Japanese. This volume is an exhaustive, comparative reference grammar based on the linguistic data contained in the Man'yōshū poetic anthology (759 CE). It contains chapters dedicated to the different lexical categories, the lexicon, the phonology, and the historical development.
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