| FA-53539-07 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Charles Joseph Quinn | Early Japanese: A Reader's Rhetoric of Grammar | 6/1/2007 - 5/31/2008 | $40,000.00 | Charles | Joseph | Quinn | | | | Ohio State University | Columbus | OH | 43210-1349 | USA | 2006 | Asian Languages | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
The project's goal is final write-up of a book that explains and illustrates grammar as a resource for configuring discourse in early Japanese texts, in order to facilitate reading them more perspicuously. It integrates original research with relevant philological, linguistic and literary scholarship, in a style and format accessible to students of early literature, historians of the Japanese language, and historians and linguists more generally. Its account of how text--meaningful, connected language--emerges with the help of grammatical and lexical cues also offers historical insights into similar phenomena today. |