Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language

Preface

The purpose of this translation of Collado's _Ars Grammaticae Iaponicae Linguae_ of 1632 is to make more readily available to the scholarly community an annotated version of this significant document in the history of both Japanese language study and grammatical description in general.

Collado's work, derived in all its significant features from the _Arte da ...