| Classical Japanese: A Grammar Contributor(s): Shirane, Haruo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231135246 ISBN-13: 9780231135245 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2005 Annotation: Written by a leading scholar in the field, "Classical Japanese: A Grammar" is an elegant, comprehensive, and practical guide to classical Japanese. Extensive notes and historical explanations make this volume useful as both a reference for advanced students and a textbook for beginning students. Classical Japanese ( "bungo") was used to write Japanese for more thirteen hundred years, until World War II. The volume, which explains how classical Japanese is related to modern Japanese, includes ? Detailed explanations of basic grammar, including helpful, easy-to-use tables of grammatical forms ? Annotated excerpts from classical premodern texts, with accompanying grammar and vocabulary notes ? Exercises and an answer booklet ? Detailed explanations of honorific expressions ? Appendixes on sound changes, prefixes, and suffixes, rhetorical techniques, and auxiliary verb combinations |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Japanese - Reference | Research |
| Dewey: 495.65 |
| LCCN: 2004059376 |
| Physical Information: 1.39" H x 8.6" W x 11.18" (3.32 lbs) 552 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Classical Japanese: A Grammar is a comprehensive, and practical guide to classical Japanese. Extensive notes and historical explanations make this volume useful as both a reference for advanced students and a textbook for beginning students. The volume, which explains how classical Japanese is related to modern Japanese, includes detailed explanations of basic grammar, including helpful, easy-to-use tables of grammatical forms; annotated excerpts from classical premodern texts. Classical Japanese: A Grammar - Exercise Answers and Tables (ISBN: 978-0-231-13530-6) is now available for purchase as a separate volume. |