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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-described in terms of
grammar. It is the only non-Japonic language of Japan and is
typologically different not only from Japanese but also from other
Northeast Asian languages. Revolving around but not confined to its
head-marking and polysynthetic character, Ainu manifests many
typologically interesting phenomena, related in particular to the
combinability of various voice markers and noun incorporation.
Other interesting features of Ainu include vowel co-occurrence
restrictions, a mixed system of expressing grammatical relations,
which includes the elements of a rare tripartite alignment, nominal
classification distinguishing common and locative nouns, elaborate
possessive classes, verbal number, a rich four-term evidential
system, and undergrammaticalized aspect, which are all explained in
the volume. This handbook, the result of unprecedented cooperation
of the leading experts of Ainu, will definitely help to increase
the clarity of our understanding of Ainu and in a long-term
perspective may provide answers to problems of human prehistory as
well as open the field of Ainu studies to the world and attract
many new students. Table of Contents Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro
Kageyama Preface Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama Introduction
to the Handbook of Japanese Language and Linguistics Contributors
Anna Bugaeva Introduction I Overview of Ainu studies Anna Bugaeva
1. Ainu: A head-marking language of the Pacific Rim Juha Janhunen
2. Ainu ethnic origins Tomomi Sato 3. Major old documents of Ainu
and some problems in the historical study of Ainu Alfred F.
Majewicz 4. Ainu language Western records Jose Andres Alonso de la
Fuente 5. The Ainu language through time Alexander Vovin 6. Ainu
elements in early Japonic Hidetoshi Shiraishi and Itsuji Tangiku 7.
Language contact in the north Hiroshi Nakagawa and Mika Fukazawa 8.
Hokkaido Ainu dialects: Towards a classification of Ainu dialects
Itsuji Tangiku 9. Differences between Karafuto and Hokkaido Ainu
dialects Shiho Endo 10. Ainu oral literature Osami Okuda 11. Meter
in Ainu oral literature Tetsuhito Ono 12. The history and current
status of the Ainu language revival movement II Typologically
interesting characteristics of the Ainu language Hidetoshi
Shiraishi 13. Phonetics and phonology Hiroshi Nakagawa 14. Parts of
Speech - with a focus on the classification of nouns Anna Bugaeva
and Miki Kobayashi 15. Verbal valency Tomomi Sato 16. Noun
incorporation Hiroshi Nakagawa 17. Verbal number Yasushige
Takahashi 18. Aspect and evidentiality Yoshimi Yoshikawa 19.
Existential aspectual forms in the Saru and Chitose dialects of
Ainu III Appendices: Sample texts Anna Bugaeva 20. An uwepeker
"Retar Katak, Kunne Katak" and kamuy yukar "Amamecikappo" narrated
in the Chitose Hokkaido Ainu dialect by Ito Oda Elia dal Corso 21.
"Meko Oyasi", a Sakhalin Ainu ucaskuma narrated by Haru Fujiyama
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