Excerpt from An Historical Grammar of JapaneseThe chief object of this work is to provide material for study of the affiliations of the Japanese language, and, in so far as philological evidence is of value, for inquiry into the origins of the Japanese race but it has been so planned as to be, I hope, Of interest to students of general linguistic theory. I trust also that advanced students of Japanese, especially those who wish to read early a...
Excerpt from An Historical Grammar of JapaneseThe chief object of this work is to provide material for study of the affiliations of the Japanese language, and, in so far as philological evidence is of value, for inquiry into the origins of the Japanese race but it has been so planned as to be, I hope, Of interest to students of general linguistic theory. I trust also that advanced students of Japanese, especially those who wish to read early a...
