{"product_id":"handbook-of-the-ainu-language-9781501510885","title":"Handbook of the Ainu Language","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 \u003cp\u003eRevolving 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 \u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMasayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMasayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to the Handbook of Japanese Language and Linguistics \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Bugaeva\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI Overview of Ainu studies \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Bugaeva\u003cbr\u003e1. Ainu: A head-marking language of the Pacific Rim \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJuha Janhunen\u003cbr\u003e2. Ainu ethnic origins \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTomomi Satō\u003cbr\u003e3. Major old documents of Ainu and some problems in the historical study of Ainu \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlfred F. Majewicz\u003cbr\u003e4. Ainu language Western records \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJos? Andr?s Alonso de la Fuente\u003cbr\u003e5. The Ainu language through time \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander Vovin\u003cbr\u003e6. Ainu elements in early Japonic \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHidetoshi Shiraishi and Itsuji Tangiku\u003cbr\u003e7. Language contact in the north \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHiroshi Nakagawa and Mika Fukazawa\u003cbr\u003e8. Hokkaido Ainu dialects: Towards a classification of Ainu dialects \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eItsuji Tangiku\u003cbr\u003e9. Differences between Karafuto and Hokkaido Ainu dialects \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShiho Endō\u003cbr\u003e10. Ainu oral literature \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOsami Okuda\u003cbr\u003e11. Meter in Ainu oral literature \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTetsuhito Ōno\u003cbr\u003e12. The history and current status of the Ainu language revival movement \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eII Typologically interesting characteristics of the Ainu language \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHidetoshi Shiraishi\u003cbr\u003e13. Phonetics and phonology \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHiroshi Nakagawa\u003cbr\u003e14. Parts of Speech - with a focus on the classification of nouns \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Bugaeva and Miki Kobayashi\u003cbr\u003e15. Verbal valency \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTomomi Satō\u003cbr\u003e16. Noun incorporation \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHiroshi Nakagawa\u003cbr\u003e17. Verbal number \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYasushige Takahashi\u003cbr\u003e18. Aspect and evidentiality \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYoshimi Yoshikawa\u003cbr\u003e19. Existential aspectual forms in the Saru and Chitose dialects of Ainu \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIII Appendices: Sample texts \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnna Bugaeva\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 \u003cp\u003eElia dal Corso\u003cbr\u003e21. \"Meko Oyasi\", a Sakhalin Ainu ucaskuma narrated by Haru Fujiyama \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnna Bugaeva\u003c\/strong\u003e, Tokyo University of Science, Japan. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"de Gruyter Mouton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50437280071954,"sku":"9781501510885","price":480.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b5123b8e-17fc-4c16-bad1-9055931d1567.jpg?v=1729642342","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/handbook-of-the-ainu-language-9781501510885","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}