Diachrony, Synchrony, and Typology of Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese

This book reconstructs the synchronic system of tense and aspect in Old Japanese. Watanabe takes a fundamentally different approach from previous analyses by examining the syntactic distribution of temporal suffixes in Many-sh-, an eighth-century poetry collection.

Kazuha Watanabe

Introduction Chapter 1: Tense and Aspect Chapter 2: -(ye)ri, -kyeri, and -ki Chapter 3: -tu and -nu Chapter 4: -tari and other emerging markers Chapter 5: Beyond the Man'yoshu References About the Author