Monday, March 4, 2019

history - Origins of the Volitional Form


I was doing some reading, and I read that while the volitional form can be explained as coming from the 未然形 for う-verbs, it cannot be explained for る-verbs. (I'm sure I should be using better terminology here, like 五段, but the correct words escape me.) Is this true? Can the usage of よ in the volitional form not be explained?




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