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A Reference Grammar of Classical Japanese Prose

By: Alexander Vovin

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A Reference Grammar of Classical Japanese Prose

By: Alexander Vovin

This complete description of the language of the golden Heian period (794-1185) features an innovative morphological analysis to facilitate reference usage and provides a comprehensive reference work for students of classical Japanese.

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Psychology Press

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0700717161

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A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (2 vols)

Revised, Updated and Enlarged Second Edition

By: Alexander Vovin

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A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (2 vols)

Revised, Updated and Enlarged Second Edition

By: Alexander Vovin

This is the revised, updated and enlarged second edition of the first detailed descriptive grammar in English dedicated to the Western Old Japanese. The grammar is divided into two volumes, with the first volume dealing with sources, script, phonology, lexicon, nominals and adjectives. The second volume focuses on verbs, adverbs, particles, conjunctions and interjections.

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9004422811

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9789004422810

The Footprints of the Buddha

The Text and the Language

By: Alexander Vovin

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The Footprints of the Buddha

The Text and the Language

By: Alexander Vovin

This book deals with Chinese and Japanese inscriptions (8th century AD) about the footprints of Buddha. The language of the Japanese inscription reflects the contemporary dialect of Nara. Its writing system presents a special interest being practically monophonic.

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9004449841

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9789004449848

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (2 vols)

Revised, Updated and Enlarged Second Edition

By: Alexander Vovin

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A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (2 vols)

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A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu

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A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu

By: Alexander Vovin

This monograph deals with the reconstruction of the Proto-Ainu language and the problems of its genetic affiliation.

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9004099050

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Koreo-Japonica

A Re-evaluation of a Common Genetic Origin

By: Alexander Vovin

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Koreo-Japonica

A Re-evaluation of a Common Genetic Origin

By: Alexander Vovin

The Japonic (Japanese and Ryukyuan) portmanteau language family and the Korean language have long been considered isolates on the fringe of northeast Asia. Although in the last fifty years many specialists in Japonic and Korean historical linguistics have voiced their support for a genetic relationship between the two, this concept has not been endorsed by general historical linguists and no significant attempts have been made to advance beyond the status quo. Alexander Vovin, a longtime advocate of the genetic relationship view, engaged in a reanalysis of the known data in the hope of finding evidence in support of this position. In the process of his work, however, he became convinced that the multiple similarities between Japonic and Korean are the result of several centuries of contact and do not descend from a hypothetical common ancestor. In Koreo-Japonica, Vovin carefully reviews recent advances in the reconstruction of both language families. His detailed analysis of most of the morphological and lexical comparisons offered so far shows that whenever the proposed comparisons are not due to pure chance, they can almost always be explained as borrowings from Korean into a central group of Japanese dialects from roughly between the third and eighth centuries A.D. The remaining group of lexical (but not morphological) comparisons that cannot be explained in this way is, he argues, too small to serve as proof of even a distant genetic relationship. In this volume, a leading historical linguist presents a significant challenge to a view widely held by Japonic and Korean historical linguistics on the relationship between the two language families and offers material support for the skepticism long espoused by general historical linguists on the matter. His findings will both challenge and illuminate issues of interest to all linguists working with language contact and typology as well as those concerned with the prehistory and early history of East Asia.

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University of Hawaii Press

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082483769X

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9780824837693

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese

Part 2: Adjectives, Verbs, Conjunctions, Particles, Postpositions, Indexes

By: Alexander Vovin

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A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese

Part 2: Adjectives, Verbs, Conjunctions, Particles, Postpositions, Indexes

By: Alexander Vovin

Together with Part 1 of the same grammar (Sources, Script and Phonology, Lexicon and Nominals), this two-volume set represents the most detailed and exhaustive description ever done of any language, including Japanese of the Old Japanese language of the Yamato region during the Asuka Nara period. It presents hundreds of examples drawn not only from the major Old Japanese texts such as the Man’yoshu, the Senmyo, the Kojiki kayo and the Nihonshoki kayo but also from all minor extant texts such as the Fudoky kayo, the Bussoku seki ka, and others. It also includes comparative material from Eastern Old Japanese once spoken in the area roughly corresponding to present-day southern Chubu and Kanto regions, as well as from Ryukyuan and occasionally from other surrounding languages. Part 2 is accompanied by exhaustive and cumulative indexes to both volumes, including separate indexes on all grammatical forms described, linguistic forms, personal names, as well as an index of all Old Japanese texts that are used as examples in the description.

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Global Oriental

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9004213112

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9789004213111

A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu

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A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu

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This monograph deals with the reconstruction of the Proto-Ainu language and the problems of its genetic affiliation.

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The Footprints of the Buddha

The Text and the Language

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The Footprints of the Buddha

The Text and the Language

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The echo of the stone/ where I carved the [Buddha's] honorable footprints/ reaches the Heaven, [...]". This book presents the transcription, translation, and analysis of Chinese (753 AD) and Japanese inscriptions (end of the 8th century AD) found on two stones now in the possession of the Yakushiji temple in Nara. All these inscriptions praise the footprints of Buddha, and more exactly their carvings in the stone. The language of the Japanese inscription, which consists of twenty-one poems, reflects the contemporary dialect of Nara. Its writing system shows a quite unique trait, being practically monophonic. The book is richly illustrated by photos of the temple and of the inscriptions"--

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Languages of Asia

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9004449779

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9789004449770

Koreo-Japonica

A Re-evaluation of a Common Genetic Origin

By: Alexander Vovin

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A Re-evaluation of a Common Genetic Origin

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The Eastern Old Japanese Corpus and Dictionary

By: Alexander Vovin,Sambi Ishisaki-Vovin

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The Eastern Old Japanese Corpus and Dictionary

By: Alexander Vovin,Sambi Ishisaki-Vovin

This book presents for the first time all texts constituting the Eastern Old Japanese corpus as well as the dictionary including all lexical items found. Unlike its relative Western Old Japanese, Eastern Old Japanese is not based on the language of just two geographic localities, but is stretched along several provinces of Ancient Japan along the Pacific Seaboard (modern Aichi to Ibaraki) and across the island of Honshū from Etchū (Modern Toyama and parts of Ishikawa) province to Shinano and Kai provinces (modern Nagano and Yamanashi). Therefore, references to places of attestation are included into our dictionary, too.

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9004471669

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9789004471665

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese

Part 2: Adjectives, Verbs, Conjunctions, Particles, Postpositions, Indexes

By: Alexander Vovin

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Part 2: Adjectives, Verbs, Conjunctions, Particles, Postpositions, Indexes

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Alexander Sasha Sergeeff

By: Alexander Sergeeff

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Alexander Sasha Sergeeff

By: Alexander Sergeeff

Alexander “Sasha” Sergeeff è nato a Mosca, Russia, nel 1968. Ha cominciato a dipingere all'età di 5 anni. Ha frequentato Liceo Artistico di Mosca. Ha studiato e lavorato in Accademia di Belle Arti di Mosca. Dal 1993 vive e lavora a Roma. Le sue opere sono state esposte nelle numerose mostre tra Mosca, Roma, Milano, Parigi, New York ed altri città del mondo. Suo modo di lavorare rimasto rigorosamente ottocentesco: su commissione privata.

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8849277059

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9788849277050

The Philosophy of Living Experience

Popular Outlines

By: Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov

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The Philosophy of Living Experience

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By: Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov

The Philosophy of Living Experience is the single best introduction to the thought of Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928), a Russian polymath who was co-founder, with Lenin, of the Bolshevik Party. His landmark achievements are Empiriomonism (1904–6), a philosophy of radical empiricism that he developed to replace what he considered to be the crude materialism of contemporary Marxists, and Tektology: Universal Organisational Science (1912–17), a precursor of cybernetics and systems theory. The Philosophy of Living Experience (1913) was written at a transitional point between the two; it is a final summing up of empiriomonism, an illustration of his theory of the social genesis of ideas, and an anticipation of Tektology.

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A Reference Grammar of Classical Japanese Prose

A Reference Grammar of Classical Japanese Prose

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (2 vols)

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (2 vols)

The Footprints of the Buddha

The Footprints of the Buddha

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (2 vols)

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese (2 vols)

A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu

A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu

Koreo-Japonica

Koreo-Japonica

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese

A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu

A Reconstruction of Proto-Ainu

The Footprints of the Buddha

The Footprints of the Buddha

Koreo-Japonica

Koreo-Japonica

The Eastern Old Japanese Corpus and Dictionary

The Eastern Old Japanese Corpus and Dictionary

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese

Alexander Sasha Sergeeff

Alexander Sasha Sergeeff

The Philosophy of Living Experience

The Philosophy of Living Experience

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