Download or read book A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese written by Alexander Vovin and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together with Part 1 of the same grammar (Sources, Script and Phonology, Lexicon and Nominals), this two-volume set represents the most detailed and exhaustive description ever done of any language, including Japanese of the Old Japanese language of the Yamato region during the Asuka Nara period.