Old Japanese

A Phonetic Reconstruction
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-85991-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 477 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miyake, Marc Hideo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Marc Hideo Miyake