The Evolution of the Japanese Past and Perfective Suffixes: Volume 26 (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Band 26) - Hardcover

Sandness, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0939512920 ISBN 13: 9780939512928

Verlag: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR, 1999

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The inflectional morphology of the classical Japanese of the Heian period (794-1185) is markedly different from that of modern standard Japanese. In particular, five temporal and aspectual suffixes, -ki, -keri, -ri, -nu, and -tu, have disappeared, and a sixth, -tari, has evolved into the modern past and perfective suffix -ta. This study documents the changes in these six suffixes by examining their usage in literary works from the Heian period through the Kamakura period (1185-1334) and most of the Muromachi period (1114-1615).In her work, Karen E. Sandness succeeds in (1) presenting an internally consistent and workable analysis of classical Japanese suffixes, (2) explaining the evidence for the evolution and disappearance of these suffixes, and (3) pointing out the ways in which the dialectological and literary evidence support and contradict each other. The Evolution of the Japanese Past and Perfective Suffixes is important reading for those interested in Japanese language and linguistics. It will also aid scholars and students in reading and understanding various aspects of classical Japanese.

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Karen E. Sandness received her PhD in Japanese from Yale University. After teaching elementary and intermediate Japanese for eleven years, she now works as a freelance editor and Japanese-English translator in Portland, Oregon.

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• Verlag: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0939512920
• ISBN 13: 9780939512928
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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