On KUROKAWA Mayori's Gogaku-zatsuzu
Keywords:
conjugation table,
conclusive form,
r-irregular verbs,
Kotoba no Shiori (詞の栞),
Monbushō-henshūryō (文部省編輯寮)
2016 Volume 12 Issue 2 Pages 67-52
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2016 Volume 12 Issue 2 Pages 67-52
This paper is a study of the recently discovered manuscript Gogaku-zatsuzu (語学雑図) by KUROKAWA Mayori (黒川真頼). His work contains conjugation tables and teniwoha (particles, auxiliary verbs, suffixes, and so on). It gives an insight into the development of his study of Japanese grammar: his treatment of the conjugation system in conjunction with his organization of teniwoha.
This study supports the presumption that it was written before 1871, based on the use of the technical term shūshi-gen (終止言) and the position of the r-irregular verbs in tables. Consequently, this study suggests that Mayori's grammatical theory played a very important part in the compilation of Goi-bekki (語彙別記) and Goi-katsugo-shishō (語彙活語指掌) by Monbushō Henshūryō (文部省編輯寮).
