{"product_id":"9781501510885","title":"Handbook of the Ainu Language (Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [hjll])","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Table of Contents \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama\n\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama\n\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to the Handbook of Japanese Language and Linguistics \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Contributors \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Anna Bugaeva\n\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e I Overview of Ainu studies \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Anna Bugaeva\n\u003cbr\u003e1. Ainu: A head-marking language of the Pacific Rim \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Juha Janhunen\n\u003cbr\u003e2. Ainu ethnic origins \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Tomomi Satō\n\u003cbr\u003e3. Major old documents of Ainu and some problems in the historical study of Ainu \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Alfred F. Majewicz\n\u003cbr\u003e4. Ainu language Western records \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente\n\u003cbr\u003e5. The Ainu language through time \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Alexander Vovin\n\u003cbr\u003e6. Ainu elements in early Japonic \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Hidetoshi Shiraishi and Itsuji Tangiku\n\u003cbr\u003e7. Language contact in the north \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Hiroshi Nakagawa and Mika Fukazawa\n\u003cbr\u003e8. Hokkaido Ainu dialects: Towards a classification of Ainu dialects \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Itsuji Tangiku\n\u003cbr\u003e9. Differences between Karafuto and Hokkaido Ainu dialects \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Shiho Endō\n\u003cbr\u003e10. Ainu oral literature \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Osami Okuda\n\u003cbr\u003e11. Meter in Ainu oral literature \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Tetsuhito Ōno\n\u003cbr\u003e12. The history and current status of the Ainu language revival movement \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e II Typologically interesting characteristics of the Ainu language \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Hidetoshi Shiraishi\n\u003cbr\u003e13. Phonetics and phonology \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Hiroshi Nakagawa\n\u003cbr\u003e14. Parts of Speech - with a focus on the classification of nouns \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Anna Bugaeva and Miki Kobayashi\n\u003cbr\u003e15. Verbal valency \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Tomomi Satō\n\u003cbr\u003e16. Noun incorporation \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Hiroshi Nakagawa\n\u003cbr\u003e17. Verbal number \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Yasushige Takahashi\n\u003cbr\u003e18. Aspect and evidentiality \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Yoshimi Yoshikawa\n\u003cbr\u003e19. Existential aspectual forms in the Saru and Chitose dialects of Ainu \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e III Appendices: Sample texts \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Anna Bugaeva\n\u003cbr\u003e20. An uwepeker \"Retar Katak, Kunne Katak\" and kamuy yukar \"Amamecikappo\" narrated in the Chitose Hokkaido Ainu dialect by Ito Oda \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Elia dal Corso\n\u003cbr\u003e21. \"Meko Oyasi\", a Sakhalin Ainu ucaskuma narrated by Haru Fujiyama \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Subject index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter Mouton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52585519218999,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":2654.82,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9781501510885-1.jpg?v=1783212754","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9781501510885","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}