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.
| ISBN: | 9780231135245 |
| Publication date: | 27th July 2005 |
| Author: | Haruo Shirane |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 552 pages |
| Genres: |
Grammar, syntax and morphology |