Classical Japanese: A Grammar

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.

• Author
• Haruo Shirane

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 525

• Publisher
• Columbia University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780231135245

• Genres
• reference, japan, textbooks

• Release date
• 2005