Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics VII
4. Contents XXXIII
5. Contributors XXXVII
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I: Overview of Ainu studies
8. 1 Ainu: A head-marking language of the Pacific Rim 21
9. 2 Ainu ethnic origins 57
10. 3 Major old documents of Ainu and some problems in the historical study of Ainu 79
11. 4 Ainu language Western records 99
12. 5 The Ainu language through time 147
13. 6 Ainu elements in early Japonic 185
14. 7 Language contact in the north 209
15. 8 Hokkaido Ainu dialects: Towards a classification of Ainu dialects 253
16. 9 Differences between Karafuto and Hokkaido Ainu dialects 329
17. 10 Ainu oral literature 363
18. 11 Meter in Ainu oral literature 393
19. 12 The history and current status of the Ainu language revival movement 405
20. Part II: Typologically interesting characteristics of the Ainu language
21. 13 Phonetics and phonology 443
22. 14 Parts of speech – with a focus on the classification of nouns 473
23. 15 Verbal valency 515
24. 16 Noun incorporation in Ainu 549
25. 17 Verbal number 573
26. 18 Aspect and evidentiality 613
27. 19 Existential aspectual forms in the Saru and Chitose dialects of Ainu 629
28. Part III: Appendices: Sample texts
29. 20 An uwepeker “Retar Katak, Kunne Katak” and kamuy yukar “Amamecikappo” narrated in the Hokkaido Ainu dialect of Chitose by Ito Oda 657
30. 21 “Meko Oyasi” a Sakhalin Ainu ucaskuma narrated by Haru Fujiyama 677
31. Subject Index 695