Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction

ISBN-13: 9780415859912 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 312 str.

Marc Hideo Miyake

Opis

What did eighth century Japanese sound like? How does one decode its complex script? This book provides the definitive answers to these questions using an unprecedented range of data from the past and the present, including Chinese, Vietnamese, Sanskrit and Tibetan sources, and enables the reader to approximate the original pronunciation of Old Japanese literature.

Spis treści

Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, symbols, and conventions, 1 Introduction, 2 Early transcriptions of Japanese, 3 Previous research on phonograms, 4 Japanese phonology through time, 5 Old Chinese, Middle Chinese, and Sinoxenic, 6 Goals and methodology, 7 The reconstruction of Old Japanese consonants, 8 The reconstruction of Old Japanese vowels, 9 Conclusion, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Marc Hideo Miyake