The Origin Of The Japanese Language
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The Origin Of The Japanese Language
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Author : Susumu Ōno
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
The Origin Of The Japanese Language written by Susumu Ōno and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Grammar, Comparative and general categories.
A History Of The Japanese Language
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Author : Bjarke Frellesvig
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-29
A History Of The Japanese Language written by Bjarke Frellesvig and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-29 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Bjarke Frellesvig describes the development of the Japanese language from its recorded beginnings until the present day as reflected by the written sources and historical record. Beginning with a description of the oldest attested stage of the language, Old Japanese (approximately the eighth century AD), and then tracing the changes which occurred through the Early Middle Japanese (800–1200), Late Middle Japanese (1200–1600) and the Modern Japanese (1600–onwards) periods, a complete internal history of the language is examined and discussed. This account provides a comprehensive study of how the Japanese language has developed and adapted, providing a much needed resource for scholars. A History of the Japanese Language is invaluable to all those interested in the Japanese language and also students of language change generally.
Japanese Language
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Author : Haruhiko Kindaichi
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2011-12-20
Japanese Language written by Haruhiko Kindaichi and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-20 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This is a book about the structure, history and evolution of the Japanese language. The Japanese Language is a classic study of one of the world's most widely used but least understood languages. Emphasizing the richness and complexity of Japanese as well as its limitations, this fine book provides a lively discussion about the uniqueness of the Japanese language. The relationship of Japanese to other languages is not well understood even by native speakers, and Professor Kindaichi sets out to define it. He concludes that Japanese is indeed only remotely related to other world languages although it shares many features in common with the languages of mainland Asia. Japanese shares with those languages a rich and detailed vocabulary for natural phenomena and an unusually complex and accurate way of expressing social relationships. Moreover, its capability to absorb innovations from abroad easily matches or exceeds that of English or German. The author, after briefly discussing the unique isolation of the Japanese language, moves on to consider the varieties of ordinary speech--dialects, jargon, sex--and role-based distinctions, and the difference between informal, formal, and literary language. He then examines the structure of Japanese pronunciations, its rhythm, and accent. The longest section of the book is devoted to the variety of the vocabulary, what can and cannot be said in Japanese. Readers who are just beginning their own study of Japanese will find this section especially fascinating, for each point is backed by examples from literature and everyday speech. Kindaichi also investigates the so-called vagueness of Japanese and traces it to its source-the unusual sentence order. This book includes: The highly debated origins of the Japanese language. Dialects, jargon, sex and role-based distinctions. Differences between informal, formal, and literary language. Structure, rhythm, and accent of pronunciation. What can and cannot be said in Japanese.
The Origin Of The Japanese Language
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Author : S. Ohna
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
The Origin Of The Japanese Language written by S. Ohna and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with categories.
Is Japanese Related To Korean Tungusic Mongolic And Turkic
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Author : Martine Irma Robbeets
language : en
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Release Date : 2005
Is Japanese Related To Korean Tungusic Mongolic And Turkic written by Martine Irma Robbeets and has been published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Where does Japanese come from? The linguistic origin of the Japanese language is among the most disputed questions of language history. One current hypothesis is that Japanese is an Altaic language, sharing a common ancestor with Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic. But, the opinions are strongly polarized. Especially the inclusion of Japanese into this classification model is very much under debate. Given the lack of consensus in the field, this book presents a state of the art for the etymological evidence relating Japanese to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic. The different Altaic etymologies proposed in the scholarly literature are gathered in an etymological index of Japanese appended to this book. An item-by-item sifting of the evidence helps to hold down borrowings, universal similarities and coincidental look-alikes to a small percentage. When the remaining core-evidence is screened in terms of phonological regularity, the answer to the intriguing question is beginning to take shape.
Japanese History Culture From Ancient To Modern Times
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Author : John W. Dower
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1986
Japanese History Culture From Ancient To Modern Times written by John W. Dower and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Reference categories.
Koguryo The Language Of Japan S Continental Relatives
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Author : Christopher Beckwith
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007-05-28
Koguryo The Language Of Japan S Continental Relatives written by Christopher Beckwith and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book describes the Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and Korea, including Koguryo and Japanese ethnolinguistic history, Koguryo’s genetic relationship to Japanese, Koguryo phonology, and the Koguryo lexicon. It also analyzes the phonology of archaic Northeastern Chinese.
Language Typology
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Author : Alice Caffarel
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2004
Language Typology written by Alice Caffarel and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is intended as a systemic functional contribution to language typology both for those who would like to understand and describe particular languages against the background of generalizations about a wide range of languages and also for those who would like to develop typological accounts that are based on and embody descriptions of the systems of particular languages (rather than isolated constructions). The book is a unique contribution in at least two respects. On the one hand, it is the first book based on systemic functional theory that is specifically concerned with language typology. On the other hand, the book combines the particular with the general in the description of languages: it presents comparable sketches of particular languages while at the same time identifying generalizations based on the languages described here as well as on other languages. The volume explores eight languages, covering seven language families: French, German, Pitjantjatjara, Tagalog, Telugu, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese.
Historical Grammar Of Japanese
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Author : G. B. Sansom
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
Historical Grammar Of Japanese written by G. B. Sansom and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Social Science categories.
First published in 1928, this path-breaking work is still of importance and interest to Japanese scholars and linguists.
The Languages Of Japan And Korea
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Author : Nicolas Tranter
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-06-25
The Languages Of Japan And Korea written by Nicolas Tranter and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-25 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Languages of Japan and Korea provides detailed descriptions of the major varieties of languages in the region, both modern and pre-modern, within a common format, producing a long-needed introductory reference source. Korean, Japanese, Ainu, and representative members of the three main groupings of the Ryukyuan chain are discussed for the first time in a single work. The volume is divided into language sketches, the majority of which are broken down into sections on phonology, orthography, morphology, syntax and lexicon. Specific emphasis is placed on those aspects of syntactic interest, such as speech levels, honorifics and classifiers, which are commonly underplayed in other descriptions of Modern Japanese and Korean. Each language is represented in Roman-based transcription, although its own script (where there is such an orthography) and IPA transcriptions are used sparingly where appropriate. The dialects of both the modern and oldest forms of the languages are given extensive treatment, with a primary focus on the differences from the standard language. These synchronic snapshots are complemented by a discussion of both the genetic and areal relationships between languages in the region.