This volume will be the first full-length exploration in any language of the details of the history of the Japanese language written by experts in the different

The core data is laid out, followed by critical discussion of the various approaches found in the literature. Each chapter ends with a section on how the study

This volume will be the first full-length exploration in any language of the details of the history of the Japanese language written by experts in the different

An entirely new follow-up volume providing a detailed account of numerous additional issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical l

Bjarke Frellesvig describes the development of the Japanese language from its recorded beginnings until the present day as reflected by the written sources and