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Syllabus for LSA.239 | The Syntax of Pre-Modern Japanese
Readings | The Syntax of Pre-Modern Japanese
Handouts for LSA.239 | The Syntax of Pre-Modern Japanese
Bjarke Frellesvig's Japanese Handouts

Satô-bon Kegon mongiyôketsu  (佐藤本華嚴文義要訣), Nara period. Original text destroyed during World War II. Compiled by the Shilla monk P’yowŏn 表員 of Hwangyong-sa (皇龍寺) temple in the early 8th century; brought to Japan prior to 751. Text on the back of the more famous Tōdaiji fujumonkō (東大寺諷誦文稿 late 8th, early 9th c.).  Kunten in brown ink, thought to date from around 800, are among the earliest attested in Japan; they include simple wokototen (ヲコト点), punctuation marks, and kaeriten (reversal marks; 返り点). It is unclear whether they were added to facilitate reading of the text in Korean or Japanese, or both. See Kobayashi Yoshinori (2004) Kakuhitsu bunken kenkyū dōron (jō) Higashi Ajia hen (角筆文献研究導論(上)東アジア篇). Tokyo: Kyūko Shoin.

Course Materials

Syllabus for LSA.239 | The Syntax of Pre-Modern Japanese

Readings for LSA.239 | The Syntax of Pre-Modern Japanese

         DIGS[1].02-Watanabe.pdf
         Ergativity[1].05-Aldridge.pdf
         Kobe[1].05-Kuroda.pdf
         TEAL[1].05-Yanagida.pdf
         WAFL[1].05-Watanabe-final.pdf
         JBW 2005 Preverbal negation in J&K.pdf
         JBW 2000 Relabeling.pdf
         Miyagawa & Ekida 2002.pdf

Handouts for LSA.239 | The Syntax of Pre-Modern Japanese
         Watanabe[1].7.26.handout.pdf
         Watanabe[1].7.28.handout.pdf
         Watanabe[1].8.2.handout.pdf

Bjarke Frellesvig's Japanese Handouts
         1 Writing and Sources.pdf
         2 The Phonology of OJ.pdf
         3.1 Pronouns.pdf
         3.2 Loanwords.pdf
         3.3 Particles.pdf
         4 Verbs and adjectives.pdf
         5 GRAMMAR formation and katsuyookee.pdf
         Bibliography.pdf