Written by a leading scholar in the field, "Classical Japanese: A
Grammar" is an elegant, 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.
Classical Japanese ( "bungo") was used to write Japanese for
more thirteen hundred years, until World War II. 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, with
accompanying grammar and vocabulary notes
Exercises and an answer booklet
Detailed explanations of honorific expressions
Appendixes on sound changes, prefixes, and suffixes, rhetorical
techniques, and auxiliary verb combinations
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