The Old Japanese Complement System: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study (Languages of Asia, Band 4) - Hardcover

Wrona, Janick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1901903192 ISBN 13: 9781901903195

Verlag: GLOBAL ORIENTAL, 2008

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The present study is the first large-scale investigation of the syntax of Old Japanese (mainly eighth-century Japanese). It gives a detailed account of complement clauses and related constructions in Old Japanese, based on an exhaustive investigation of the extant text corpus. The aim is twofold: first, to give a synchronic description of the types of complementation which are found in this period and of the system they are part of. Second, to address the diachronic issues of the origin of the Old Japanese complement system and more widely the pre-history of complementation in Japanese. Janick Wrona's study will be of interest to historical linguists and Japanologists alike.

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Janick Wrona obtained his D.Phil. in Japanese linguistics from the University of Oxford in 2004. He taught Japanese language and linguistics at the University of Copenhagen until taking up the position of postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Linguistics, Kyoto University in 2006.
Alexander Vovin, Professor of East Asian Languages at the University of Hawaii 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).

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• Verlag: GLOBAL ORIENTAL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1901903192
• ISBN 13: 9781901903195
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 523
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