Handbook of the Ainu language
Language and languages Ainu language e-böcker
De Gruyter Mouton
2022
EISBN 9781501502859
Intro.
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.
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.
