This page contains tables of contents for the following two publications.
Thanks to John Bentley for making them available.

John R. Bentley, Historiographical trends in early Japan (Edwin Mellen Press, May 2002).
John R. Bentley, Descriptive Grammar of Early Old Japanese (Leiden; Brill, 2001).

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword..... xiv
Acknowledgements..... xvii

Introduction..... 1
A Note on Orthographic Usage..... 17

Chapter 1: Toward a Genre..... 19
1.0 Hironari's Intentions..... 19
1.1 Modern Scholarship on Kogo shûi..... 23
1.2 The Argument of Kogo shûi..... 25
2.0 Kogo shûi as a Text..... 30
2.1 Textual Material Included in Kogo shûi..... 31
2.2 Variations of Myths..... 35
2.3 Independent Information in Kogo shûi..... 37
2.4 Organization of the Text..... 37
3.0 Historical Reception in Context..... 39
4.0 Genre.....43
4.1 Nikki and Private Poetical Collections..... 46
4.2 Mythology..... 53
4.3 Native Histories..... 60
5.0 Conclusion..... 65

Chapter 2: Kogo shûi..... 67
Chapter 3: Takahashi ujibumi..... 93
Chapter 4: Jôgû Shôtoku hôô teisetsu..... 103
Chapter 5 Gangôji garan engi..... 117
Chapter 6 Tôshi kaden..... 133
Chapter 7 Kiyomaro Wake den..... 151
Chapter 8 Ima kagami..... 159
Appendix A Jôgûki..... 205
Appendix B Norito..... 207
Appendix C Kogo shûi Gisaiben..... 211
Appendix D Genealogy of Jôe..... 217
Bibliography..... 227
Index..... 235

John R. Bentley, Descriptive Grammar of Early Old Japanese (Leiden; Brill, 2001).
Table of Contents (somewhat abbreviated)

Chapter 1: Introduction
1. Introduction..... 1

Chapter 2: The Liturgies
2. Norito..... 6
2.1 Writing and Mokkan..... 11
2.2 The Issues of Texts..... 18
2.3 Types of Liturgies..... 27
2.4 Interlinear Readings..... 31
2.5 Orthography..... 32

Chapter 3: Phonology
3. Phonology..... 37
3.1 Vowels..... 37
3.1.1 Vocalic Values of Old Japanese..... 43
3.2 Consonants..... 48
3.3 Morphonological Rules..... 55
3.4 Lexicon..... 58

Chapter 4: Nominals
4. Assumptions..... 61
4.1 Nominals..... 61
4.2 Pronouns..... 62
4.3 Numerals..... 71
4.4 Nouns..... 75
4.4.1 Temporal Nouns..... 77
4.4.2 Spatial Nouns..... 78
4.4.3 Prefix..... 81
4.4.4 Suffixes..... 83
4.4.4.1 Plural Markers..... 84
4.4.4.2 Case Markers..... 88
4.4.4.3 Resemblance Marker..... 118
4.4.4.4 Focus Suffix..... 120

Chapter 5: Verbs
5.1 Traditional View of Verb Classes..... 123
5.2 Structural Analysis of OJ Verb Classes..... 125
5.3 Irregular Verbs..... 129
5.4 Defective Verbs..... 130
5.5 Stative Verbs..... 138
5.6 Preverbs..... 141
5.7 Verbal Circumfix..... 144

Chapter 6: Verbal Suffixes
6.1 Sentence-Final Suffixes..... 147
6.2 Sentence-Non-Final Suffixes..... 159
6.3 Nominalizers..... 171
6.4 Word-Non-Final Suffixes..... 174
6.5 Honorific Verbs..... 203
6.6 Humble Verbs..... 208
6.7 Auxiliary Verbs..... 210

Chapter 7: Adverbs..... 217

Chapter 8: Particles
8.1 Focus Particles..... 220
8.2 Negative Imperative Particle na..... 227

Chapter 9: Conjunctions.....229

Chapter 10: Lexicon..... 233

Chapter 11: Conclusion
11. Old Japanese versus Classical Japanese..... 257

Appendix..... 264

Bibliography..... 274

Index..... 283