1st Edition

Old Japanese A Phonetic Reconstruction

By Marc Hideo Miyake Copyright 2003
    312 Pages
    by Routledge

    308 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    Marc Hideo Miyake