Classical Japanese grammar illustrated with texts

This book was written in order to provide foreign students who already possess a fair command of modern Japanese with th

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английский Pages [364] Year 1975

Table of contents :
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. Classical Kana Orthography and Pronunciation
II. The Conjugations in Classical Japanese
Verbs
Adjectives
Adjectival verbs
Auxiliary verbs
III. Honorific Language and its Use
The types of honorific language
The auxiliary verbs used in respect language
Words used either as verbs or as special auxiliary verbs in respect language
Other important verbs
Prefixes, suffixes and other words used in respect language
IV. Indeclinable Words in Classical Japanese
Particles
Case particles
Conjunctive particles
Emotive particles
Final particles
Adverbial particles
Exclamatory particles
Adverbs
Fixed modifiers
Conjunctions
Interjections
Important prefixes and suffixes
Prefixes
Suffixes
A note about onbin
V. Sentence Structure and Style
Omissions and abbreviations
Sentence structures requiring careful attention
Special points to be noted
Special rhetorical devices
Texts
Ise Monogatari (Section 9)
Makura no Soshi (Chapter 1 and 184)
Genji Monogatari (Selected from Chapter 1)
Kokin Wakashu (22 poems selected)
Romanized transcription of the texts
Index
1. Finding list for example sentences
2. Important words and compounds