Materials and Methods of Analysis for the Study of the Ainu Language : Southern Hokkaidō and Sakhalin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dal Corso, Elia.

Series:

Edizioni Ca' Foscari Handouts Series

Edizioni Ca' Foscari Handouts Series ; v.1

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Ainu language.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Venice, Italy : Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Digital Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

This volume serves as a practical manual for studying the Ainu language, focusing on its varieties in Southern Hokkaidō and Sakhalin. It employs a bottom-up approach, making it accessible to both linguistics students with minimal training and experienced linguists unfamiliar with Ainu. The book includes exercises of increasing difficulty, providing insights into the regional differences of Ainu and its folklore traditions. Topics covered range from phonemic inventory and grammatical structures to revitalization efforts and the language's historical and comparative context. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

1.1 The Ainu Language

1.2 The Rules of a Language

Exercise 1

1.3 Linguistic Typology

Morphological typology

Syntactic typology

Exercise 2

Ainu (Ainuic/Isolate, Japan) (constructed examples)

Exercise 3

Nivkh (Amuric/Isolate, Russia) (constructed examples)

Exercise 4

Yagua (Peba-Yaguan, Peru) (examples from Payne 2006, 204-5)

2.1 Background Information and Observation

Dataset 1 - Plosive consonants

Dataset 2 - The sibilant consonant s

2.2 Research

Dataset 3 - The consonants r and h

Examples from Other Languages

Italian (Romance, Italy)

Hupa (Athabaskan, USA) (examples from Genetti 2014, 59)

Korean (Koreanic, Korea)

Tausug (Austronesian, Philippines) (examples from Soderberg, Ashley, Olson, 2012)

Gujarati (Indo-Aryan, India) (examples from Esposito, Dowla Khan 2012)

2.3 Analysis and Description

3.1 Background Information and Observation

Dataset 1 - Transitive agreement

3.2 Research

Dataset 2 - Phonological changes

Examples from Other Languages…

Ancient Greek (Hellenic, Greece)

Sanskrit (Indo-Aryan, India)

Hanunó'o (Austronesian, Philippines) (data from Olson, Schultz 2002 in Payne 2006, 87)

English (Germanic, UK) (data from Payne 2006, 76)

3.3 Analysis and Description

4.1 Background Information and Observation

4.2 Research

Niimiipuutímt (Plateau Penutian, USA) (data from Aoki 1970)

4.3 Analysis and Description

5.1 Background Information and Observation.

Dataset 1 - Constituent structure

5.2 Research

Dataset 2 - Syntactic tests

Japanese (Japonic, Japan)

Nivkh (Amuric/Isolate, Russia) (data from Nedjalkov, Otaina 2012, 255)

Kalaallisut (Inuit, Greenland) (data from and adapted from Bjørnum 2012, 86-8)

Gude (Chadic, Nigeria and Cameroon) (data from Hoskison 1983, 107)

Paamese (Oceanic, Vanuatu) (data from Crowley 1982, 180)

5.3 Analysis and Description

6.1 Background Information and Observation

Dataset 1 - Relativisation of non-arguments

6.2 Research

Dataset 2 - Other cases

Yoruba (Niger-Congo, Nigeria et al.) (examples from Lawal 1987, 69)

Karachay-Balkar (Turkic, Russia) (examples from Comrie 1998, 81)

6.3 Analysis and Description

7.1 Background Information and Observation

Dataset 1 - Possible negative structures

7.2 Research

Dataset 2 - Constituent structure

Persian (Iranian, Iran) (examples from Neiloufar 2014, 26)

English (Germanic, UK)

Malay (Austronesian, Malaysia) (examples from Yap, Grunow-Hårsta, Wrona 2011, 13)

Korean (Koreanic, Korea) (examples from Yoon 1991 in Yap, Grunow-Hårsta, Wrona 2011, 6)

7.3 Analysis and Description

8.1 Background Information and Observation

Dataset 1 - Evidence of incorporation

8.2 Research

Dataset 2 - Limits and peculiarities of NI

Mohawk (Iroquoian, USA and Canada) (examples from Baker 1996 in Muro 2009, 118)

Hindi (Indo-Aryan, India) (examples from Dayal 2011 in Borik, Gehrke 2015, 20)

Chukchi (Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Russia) (examples from Polinskaja, Nedjalkov 1987 in Muro 2009, 3)

Blackfoot (Algonquian, Canada) (examples from Frantz 1971 in Mithun 1985, 858)

8.3 Analysis and Description.

9.1 Background Information and Observation

Dataset 1 - Variety of forms

9.2 Research

Dataset 2 - Structure and meaning

Ngiyambaa (Pama-Nyungan, Australia) (data from Donaldson 1980 in Aikhenvald 2004, 34)

Foe (Austronesian, Papua-New-Guinea) (data from Rule 1977 in Aikhenvald 2004, 62)

Amdo Tibetan (Tibeto-Burma, China) (data from Sun 1993 in Aikhenvald 2004, 45)

Lezgian (Caucasic, Azerbaijan) (data from Haspelmath 1993 in Aikhenvald 2004, 31)

9.3 Analysis and Description

10.1 Background Information and Observation

Dataset 1 - Morphosyntactic constraints

10.2 Research

Dataset 2 - Antipassive's semantics

Central Alaskan Yup'ik (Eskimo-Aleut, USA) (examples from Miyaoka 2012)

Puma (Sino-Tibetan, Nepal) (examples from Bickel, Gaenszle 2015)

Tlachichilco Tepehua (Totonac-Tepehua, Mexico) (examples from Watters 2017)

10.3 Analysis and Description

11.1 Background Information and Observation

11.3 Research

Dataset 2 - Types of causation

Hindi (Indo-Aryan, India) (data from Bhatia 2016, 110-11)

11.4 Analysis and Description

12.1 Background Information and Observation

Dataset 1 - Semantic complexity of motion and location

12.2 Research

Dataset 2 - Intrinsically locative nouns

Finnish (Uralic, Finland)

Icelandic (Germanic, Iceland)

12.3 Analysis and Description

13.1 Background Information and Observation

Dataset 1 - Types of aspect

13.2 Research

Dataset 2 - Functional overlap and semantic differences

English (Germanic, UK) (examples from van Lambalgen, Hamm 2005, 90-6)

13.3 Analysis and Description

14.1 Background Information and Observation.

Dataset 1 - The choice between yay- and si-

14.2 Research

Dataset 2 - Limitations of use and non-prototypical uses of reflexives

Nivkh (Isolate/Amuric, Russia) (data from and adapted from Nedjalkov and Otaina 2013, 14, 51)

Sumerian (Isolate, Ancient Mesopotamia) (data from D'Agostino et al. 2016, 147-50)

14.3 Analysis and Description

15.1 Background Information and Observation

Dataset 1 - Applicatives and thematic roles

15.2 Research

Dataset 2 - Polysemy and polyfunctionality

Malang Javanese (Austronesian, Indonesia) (examples from Hemmings 2013, 168-71)

15.3 Analysis and Description

16.1 Background Information and Observation

Dataset 1 - Semantics of clause linkers

16.2 Research

Dataset 2 - Semantic overlap

16.3 Analysis and Description

17.1 Background Information and Observation

Dataset 1 - Types of nominalisation

17.2 Research

Dataset 2 - Pragmatic applications of nominalisation

Korean (Koreanic, Korea) (example from Yoon 1991 in Yap, Grunow-Hårsta, Wrona 2011, 6)

Mongsen Ao (Sino-Tibetan, India) (example from Coupe 2007 in Yap, Grunow-Hårsta, Wrona 2011, 8)

Chhantyal (Sino-Tibetan, Nepal) (example from Grunow-Hårsta, Yap 2009 in Yap, Grunow‑Hårsta, Wrona 2011, 8)

17.3 Analysis and Description

18.1 Introduction

18.2 Japan - A Monolingual Nation?

18.3 Bilingual Education in Japan

18.4 Counting Ainu and Ainu Speakers

18.5 What is There to Revitalise?

18.6 The Steps of Language Revitalisation

18.7 Teaching and Learning Ainu as a Second Language

19.1 Is Ainu an Isolate Language?

19.2 Philological Attestations and Investigation

19.3 Internal Reconstruction

19.4 Comparative Reconstruction

19.5 Loanwords and Areal Linguistics.

19.6 Wörter und Sachen

185Hokkaidō Ainu

5.1 Background Information and Observation

8.3 Analysis and Description

9.1 Background Information and Observation

11.2 Research

11.3 Analysis and Description

19.1 Is Ainu an Isolate Language?.

19.2 Philological Attestations and Investigation.

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ISBN:

9788869698620

OCLC:

1606458973