Produced by David Starner, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text. Page numbers {99} are those of Spear's edition and are referenced in the Table of Contents, the Index and the list of typographical errors. Page numbers (99 relate to the Latin original and are referenced in the Introduction and Footnotes. The reproduction of the Latin original _Ars Grammaticae Iaponicae Linguae_ has been extracted as a separate Project Gutenberg text No. 17713. This e-text contains some letters with unusual diacritics: ã ẽ ĩ õ ũ (tilde on any vowel) ǒ ǔ (hacek / caron) ō ū (macron) If any of these characters do not display properly--in particular, if the diacritic does not appear directly above the letter--you may have better results with the Latin-1 version of this file.] * * * * * DIEGO COLLADO'S GRAMMAR OF THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE Edited and Translated by Richard L. Spear INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, EAST ASIAN SERIES RESEARCH PUBLICATION, NUMBER NINE CENTER FOR EAST ASIAN STUDIES. THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. * * * * * DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF JOSEPH K. YAMAGIWA * * * * * Table of Contents PREFACE I INTRODUCTION 1 The Grammatical Framework 3 The Phonological System 6 The Morphological System 8 The Structure of Collado's and Rodriguez' Descriptions Contrasted 11 Bibliography 26 Editorial Conventions 28 II _Ars Grammaticae Iaponicae Linguae_ III A GRAMMAR OF THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE 105 Prologue to the Reader 107 The noun--Its Declension and its Gender 111 Pronouns 118 First Person Pronouns--Ego, etc. 118 Second Person Pronouns--Tu, tui, tibi, etc. 119 Third Person Pronouns--Ille, illa, illud. 120 Relative Pronouns 122 The Formation of the Verb and its Conjugation 123 The Preterit, Perfect, Imperfect, and Pluperfect 124 The Future of the First Conjugation 125 The Imperative of the First Conjugation 125 The Optative of the First Conjugation 126 The Subjunctive of the First Affirmative Conjugation 127