Time in East Asian Endangered Languages : Grammar, History, and Society.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dal Corso, Elia.

Series:

Eurasian Studies

Eurasian Studies ; v.22

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Endangered languages.

East Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

This scholarly work compiles selected papers from the Second Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA2), held in 2022 at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. The volume explores the concept of 'time' in relation to endangered East Asian languages, including Nivkh, Nighvng, Chalkan, Khitan, Ainu, Sakizaya, Kaxabu, Ryukyuan languages, Hachijō, Manchurian, and Yu. The chapters cover diverse linguistic disciplines such as descriptive, historical, and comparative linguistics, discourse studies, and lexicography. The book provides insights into temporal expressions, diachronic changes, and phonological features, offering a valuable resource for researchers in endangered languages and East Asian linguistics. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

1 Introduction

2 Morphological Structure of Temporal Converbs

2.1 Structural Components

2.2 Types of Structure

3 Semantics of Temporal Converbs

3.1 Posteriority

3.2 Simultaneity

3.3 Anteriority

4 Conclusion

1 Introductory Remarks. The Position of the Chalkan Language Within South Siberian Turkic and Its Intraterminal Forms

2 Semantics and Functions of the Non-Finite Chalkan Intraterminal Forms

2.1 Intraterminal form 1 {-y/A+tAn ~ -y/Ị+tỊn &lt

-y/A tur-ɣan}

2.2 Intraterminal form 2 {‑(p)trAn ~ -(p)tAn ~ -(p)tỊn}

2.3 Intraterminal form 3 {-(p)ten}

2.4 Contamination and Overlapping of the Intraterminal Forms

3 Conclusion. Areal Patterns of Intraterminals

1 Methodological Remarks

2 Aspecto-temporality in Mongolic Languages

3 Khitan Inflectional Verbal Markers

4 Khitan Finite Predicate Markers

4.1 Simple Markers

4.2 Complex Markers

5 Further Issues

2 Typological Profile of Sakhalin Ainu, Dialects, and Language Vitality

3 Grounding for the Analysis

3.1 The Sakhalin Ainu Verb System

3.2 Overview of the Sakhalin Ainu Evidential System with a Focus on Inferentiality

3.3 Aktionsart and Telicity

4 The Semantics of Inferential Forms

4.1 Ontological Status of the Sensorial Source

4.2 The Aspectual Contour of an

5 Inferentiality Beyond Source of Information

6 Conclusions

1 Introduction: The Voice System, Transitivity and Temporal Interpretation in Sakizaya

2 Lexical Aspect and Temporal Flow

3 Rhetorical Relations and Temporal Flow in Discourse

3.1 Interpreting the Correct Relations

4 Applying Rhetorical Relations to Sakizaya: Methodology and Findings

4.1 Coordinating Relations

4.2 Subordinating Relations

4.3 Some Generalisations on Voice Marking and Relation Types

5 Conclusion.

1 Typological and Japonic Background of the Study

2 Typology of G-Marking in Ryukyuan

2.1 Type 1: Full Dative-Locative Syncretism

2.2 Type 2: Variant Dative-Locative and Dative-Allative Marking

2.3 Type 3: Full Dative-Allative Syncretism

2.4 Unclassifiable Topolects and Variations on the Typology

3 Diachrony of G-Participant-Marking in Ryukyuan

3.1 Factors Behind the Dative-Locative &gt

Allative Change

3.2 Philological Evidence for the Dative-Locative &gt

Allative Shift

3.3 Dative-Locative &gt

Allative Change and Ryukyuan Prehistory

4 Conclusions

1.1 What Is Hachijō?

1.2 The Adnominal/Final Distinction

2 The Adnominal/Final Distinction in Hachijō

2.1 The Use of Nominal and Final Forms

2.2 Non-Past Forms

2.3 Copula and Negative Auxiliary

2.4 Past Tense

2.5 Adjectives

3 The Adnominal/Final Distinction in Mainland Japanese

3.1 In Classical Japanese (CJ)

3.2 In Western Old Japanese (WOJ)

3.3 In Eastern Old Japanese (EOJ)

3.4 In Contemporary Dialects

4 The Adnominal/Final Distinction in Ryukyuan

4.1 In Old Okinawan (OO)

4.2 In Modern Ryukyuan Languages

5 Conclusion

2 Typology

2.1 Number of Forms and Numeral Symmetry

2.2 Analysability and Morphological Symmetry

2.3 Recursion

2.4 Length

2.5 Lexical Symmetry

2.6 Secondary Reference Points

2.7 Relation to Elements Outside of the System

3 Manchuric

3.1 Inventory

3.2 Three Days Ago

3.3 Ereyesterday

3.4 Yesterday

3.5 Today

3.6 Tomorrow

3.7 Overmorrow

3.8 In Three Days

4 Diachronic Aspects

4.1 Palatalisation

4.2 Fusion of the Word for 'day'

4.3 Language Contact

4.4 Relation to Expressions for Months and Years

5 Summary and Conclusion

2 Methodology

2.1 Corpus Study.

2.2 Tone Sandhi and the Obligatory Contour Principle

3 The Merger of Ia and IIa

3.1 Results of Pitch Fluctuation of Monosyllabic Tones

3.2 Previous Research on the Tonal System of Yu

4 Tone Sandhi Processes Triggering Tonal Change

4.1 Results of Tone Sandhi in Two-tone Sequences

4.2 Reconstructing the Diachronic Evolution

5 Conclusions

2 The Ainu Language and Its Contemporary Use

3 Data Collection and Analysis Methods

4 Analysis

4.1 Overall Findings

4.2 Irankarapte - Let Us Begin with Hello?

4.3 Tanto nisoro nekon an? - Ainu Weather Forecast

5 Conclusions - 'When' is Ainu Situated?

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ISBN:

9788869699139

8869699137

OCLC:

1611791874