By G. B. Sansom
First released in 1928, this path-breaking paintings remains to be of value and curiosity to jap students and linguists.
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If they were to be fully utilized, the Chinese elements had somehow to be made to serve not only as verbs but as adjectives and adverbs. Full details of the processes by which such adaptations were carried out will be found in the body ' of this work, and we need not do more than sketch them briefly here. To turn a Chinese noun into an adjective there was a convenient grammatical apparatus ready to hand in the native verb nari, which is the equivalent of our copula 'to be', and, in special common with attributive all other Japanese verbs, has Consequently, and adverbial forms.
If these characters are read according to their Chinese meanings they make no sense at all but according to their sounds they give Ana niyashie wotome wo, which are Japanese words, meaning 'Oh! what a fair and lovely maiden'. This phonetic method was applied throughout the Kojiki wherever it was thought essential by the compiler to preserve words in their native form, and so we have in this work a tolerably exact phonetic record of a great number of place and personal names, a few complete sentences, and about one hundred short poems and songs.
It would therefore naturally occur to them to write the syllable ki by means of some Chinese character pronounced ki or something like ki. This is what they did, and yoki, for instance, would be written either £f f£ (where £f Am ' , \ 22 HISTORICAL JAPANESE GRAMMAR represents the meaning of the stem yo, and {£ the sound of represents the sound the termination ki) or <%* {£ (where yo and {£ the sound ki). It might be supposed that the ^ ^^ phonetic method of would be more convenient than the dual method of %f {£, which, being a combination of the semantic and phonetic methods, is likely to cause confusion.
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