Handbook of the Ainu Language /

Handbook of the Ainu Language / / ed. by Anna Bugaeva.

The volume is aimed at preserving invaluable knowledge about Ainu, a language-isolate previously spoken in Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Kurils, which is now on the verge of extinction. Ainu was not a written language, but it possesses a huge documented stock of oral literature, yet is significantly under...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Alonso de la Fuente, José Andrés,
Bugaeva, Anna,
Dal Corso, Elia,
Endō, Shiho,
Fukazawa, Mika,
Janhunen, Juha A.,
Kageyama, Taro,
Kobayashi, Miki,
Majewicz, Alfred F.,
Nakagawa, Hiroshi,
Osami, Okuda,
Satō, Tomomi,
Shibatani, Masayoshi,
Shiraishi, Hidetoshi,
Takahashi, Yasushige,
Tangiku, Itsuji,
Vovin, Alexander,
Yoshikawa, Yoshimi,
Ōno, Tetsuhito,
HerausgeberIn:
Bugaeva, Anna,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL] , 12
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XL, 699 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Overview of Ainu studies
  • 1 Ainu: A head-marking language of the Pacific Rim
  • 2 Ainu ethnic origins
  • 3 Major old documents of Ainu and some problems in the historical study of Ainu
  • 4 Ainu language Western records
  • 5 The Ainu language through time
  • 6 Ainu elements in early Japonic
  • 7 Language contact in the north
  • 8 Hokkaido Ainu dialects: Towards a classification of Ainu dialects
  • 9 Differences between Karafuto and Hokkaido Ainu dialects
  • 10 Ainu oral literature
  • 11 Meter in Ainu oral literature
  • 12 The history and current status of the Ainu language revival movement
  • Part II: Typologically interesting characteristics of the Ainu language
  • 13 Phonetics and phonology
  • 14 Parts of speech – with a focus on the classification of nouns
  • 15 Verbal valency
  • 16 Noun incorporation in Ainu
  • 17 Verbal number
  • 18 Aspect and evidentiality
  • 19 Existential aspectual forms in the Saru and Chitose dialects of Ainu
  • Part III: Appendices: Sample texts
  • 20 An uwepeker “Retar Katak, Kunne Katak” and kamuy yukar “Amamecikappo” narrated in the Hokkaido Ainu dialect of Chitose by Ito Oda
  • 21 “Meko Oyasi” a Sakhalin Ainu ucaskuma narrated by Haru Fujiyama
  • Subject Index

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