Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Table of contents IX
5. Glossing conventions XXIX
6. Abbreviations XXXI
7. 1 Introduction 1
8. 2 Sound change, reconstruction, and subgrouping 23
9. 3 Vowel elision, rendaku, and assimilations 105
10. 4 Lexicon 119
11. 5 Nominals 143
12. 6 Adjectives and adjectival verbs 245
13. 7 Verbs 277
14. 8 Adverbs 427
15. 9 Conjunctions 435
16. 10 Particles 441
17. Appendix A – A classification of poems in MYS Book 14 based on linguistic features 483
18. References 511
19. Index 519