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wealth of focused examples is a resource that knowledgeable readers with
an interest in this topic will find useful. The
inflectional morphology of the classical Japanese of the Heian period
(7941185) is markedly different from that of modern standard Japanese.
In particular, five temporal and aspectual suffixes, -ki, -keri, -ri, -nu,
and -tu, have disappeared, and a sixth, -tari, has evolved into the modern
past and perfective suffix -ta. This study documents the changes in these
six suffixes by examining their usage in literary works from the Heian
period through the Kamakura period (11851334) and most of the Muromachi
period (11141615). In
her work, Sandness succeeds in (1) presenting an internally consistent and
workable analysis of classical Japanese suffixes, (2) explaining the
evidence for the evolution and disappearance of these suffixes, and (3)
pointing out the ways in which the dialectological and literary evidence
support and contradict each other. Published by Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan |
