ABC Dictionary of Ancient Japanese Phonograms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook ABC Dictionary of Ancient Japanese Phonograms write by John R. Bentley. This book was released on 2015-12-31. ABC Dictionary of Ancient Japanese Phonograms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Making one's way through the dense jungle of Old Japanese poetry and prose can be a daunting and discouraging task because of the complex writing systems used during the Asuka (550–710 CE) and Nara (710–789 CE) eras. The intricate script is a bewildering mix of Chinese characters employed for their semantic or phonetic value or as hints to other words—or even for word games. For the first time in English, this dictionary lists all 1,215 Chinese characters used as phonograms (ongana) or vernacular characters (kungana) in Old Japanese texts. It brings together a vast amount of data in relation to Chinese phonology: Old Chinese, Later Han Chinese, Middle Chinese, Sino-Japanese (both Go-on and Kan-on), Sino-Korean, Sino-Vietnamese, and Chu Nom. The entries contain examples from more than twenty Old Japanese texts showing how each character was used and in what context. Data from excavated wooden tablets, or slips (mokkan), is included as well as a chart of all the graphs and where they appear in the cited material. Students and scholars of Old Japanese writing and language and those more widely interested in the culture and history of pre-Heian Japan now have important linguistic and textual data at their fingertips arranged by character to help them decipher material from the ancient past.
ABC Dictionary of Sino-Japanese Readings
ABC Dictionary of Sino-Japanese Readings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook ABC Dictionary of Sino-Japanese Readings write by Victor H. Mair. This book was released on 2016-07-31. ABC Dictionary of Sino-Japanese Readings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The significance of Japanese-language scholarship on China cannot be overstated. Yet much of it is largely untapped by China scholars in both the West and China, in part because they are unfamiliar with the Japanese pronunciation of Chinese characters. Even those who know Japanese are frequently frustrated when seeking an obscure reading of a personal or place name. The purpose of this volume is to enable Sinologists and others involved in Chinese studies to access entries in Japanese reference works dealing with China without going through the time-consuming process of looking up characters by radical and stroke. For users of this dictionary, it is a simple matter to find a character by looking it up by its alphabetical pinyin pronunciation. Having located it, the user can go directly to the item in Japanese reference works. The Dictionary includes more than 13,072 entries not only in Chinese characters and their Sino-Japanese (ondoku/onyomi) readings, but also the Japanese (kundoku/kunyomi) readings. The romanized Japanese readings will assist in correctly transcribing Japanese names, such as the names of Japanese publishers and authors, and the technical terms employed by Japanese in their writings on China. These features will also give those familiar with pinyin greater access to material on Japanese history and culture. The ABC Dictionary of Sino-Japanese Readings will be a boon to Sinologists and others interested in the study of China.
Azuma Old Japanese
Azuma Old Japanese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Azuma Old Japanese write by John Kupchik. This book was released on 2023-10-23. Azuma Old Japanese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. This volume serves to fill the last remaining gap in English language scholarship on the grammar of premodern Japanese dialects, and significantly contributes to our understanding of the historical development of the earliest attested Japanese dialects. It also contains an extensive reconstruction of Proto-Japanese.
A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (2 vols)
A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (2 vols) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (2 vols) write by Alexander Vovin. This book was released on 2020-09-25. A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (2 vols) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the revised, updated and enlarged second edition of the first detailed descriptive grammar in English dedicated to the Western Old Japanese. The grammar is divided into two volumes, with the first volume dealing with sources, script, phonology, lexicon, nominals and adjectives. The second volume focuses on verbs, adverbs, particles, conjunctions and interjections.
Japanese Morphography
Japanese Morphography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japanese Morphography write by Gordian Schreiber. This book was released on 2022-12-28. Japanese Morphography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Japanese Morphography, Gordian Schreiber takes an in-depth look at texts from pre-modern Japan written exclusively in Chinese characters as morphograms and demonstrates why the language behind the script is, in fact, to be identified as Japanese rather than Chinese.
