Author Description

The present book focuses on the morphological analysis of Classical Japanese verbal and adjectival forms It does not present any new facts or hardly any but attempts to describe them in a new way Therefore the linguistic material quoted below which has already been known for a long time is neither questioned nor even confronted with the original manuscripts but is instead taken from editions commonly regarded as standard Moreover no particular research has been conducted on the semantic value of each morpheme although a good many new ideas can be found here as well In both questions morphological and semantic alike the number of recognised elements has been reduced to the indispensable minimum applying Occams razor whenever possible