34.2727, Books: Dutch Grammar in Japanese Words: Nespoli

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Subject: 34.2727, Books: Dutch Grammar in Japanese Words: Nespoli

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Date: 13-Sep-2023
From: Tessa Arneri [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Dutch Grammar in Japanese Words: Nespoli


Title: Dutch Grammar in Japanese Words
Subtitle: Reception and Representation of European Theory  of Grammar
in the Manuscripts of Shizuki Tadao  (1760 – 1806)
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
                http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL:
https://www.lotpublications.nl/dutch-grammar-in-japanese-words

Author: Lorenzo Nespoli
Paperback: ISBN: 9789460934353 Pages: 691 Price: Europe EURO 58
Abstract:

European science, geography, and medicine were introduced in Early
Modern Japan through Dutch. In order to pursue these studies, Japanese
scholars of Dutch needed to gain proficient command of the Dutch
language. It is often argued that the Japanese scholars’ knowledge of
Dutch was not particularly advanced, as they were mostly limited by
their broken understanding of the contents of Dutch grammatical
handbooks and dictionaries. The present book questions and
investigates this claim with the goal of understanding the actual role
played by Dutch sources in the learning of Dutch grammar. This is done
by taking the manuscripts compiled by Shizuki Tadao (1760 – 1806) as a
case study.

Shizuki can be considered as the first Japanese who studied the
European theory of grammar. His representation of it is highly
relevant within the history of linguistic thought. In the analysis of
Shizuki’s manuscripts, this book concentrates on the representation of
the categories of the parts of speech and of morphosyntactic phenomena
related to verbs. While describing Dutch grammar, Shizuki often
mentions other Japanese authors, like Ogyū Sorai and Motoori Norinaga.
This book analyzes their works in relation to Shizuki’s manuscripts
and his Dutch sources, contextualizing Shizuki’s theories and
demonstrating their relationship to his sources. The book argues in
favor of a new positioning of Shizuki and the other rangakusha within
the scholarly environment of Early Modern Japan.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Japanese (jpn)

Written In: English (eng)

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