2. Proto-Ryukyuan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics vii
4. Table of contents xxxv
5. Acknowledgements lii
6. Contributors liii
7. List of tables lx
8. List of figures lxiii
9. List of abbreviations lxv
10. Introduction: Ryukyuan languages and Ryukyuan linguistics 1
11. I. Overview
12. 1. The Linguistic archeology of the Ryukyu Islands 13
13. 2. Proto-Ryukyuan 39
14. 3. A Sketch History of Pre-Chamberlainian Western Studies of Ryukyuan 61
15. 4. B. J. Bettelheim 1849: The first grammar of Ryukyuan 81
16. II. Linguistic features
17. 5. Ryukyuan languages: A grammar overview 113
18. 6. A generative approach to focusing in Okinawan 141
19. 7. Lexicon 157
20. 8. Phonological aspects of Ryukyuan languages 175
21. 9. Intonation in Okinawan 199
22. 10. The tense-aspect-mood systems of the Ryukyuan languages 227
23. 11. Tense, Aspect, and Mood in Miyara Yaeyaman 253
24. 12. Okinawan kakari musubi in historical and comparative perspectives 299
25. III. Grammars of individual languages
26. 13. Amami grammar 323
27. 14. Okinoerabu grammar 345
28. 15. Shuri Okinawan grammar 379
29. 16. Tarama Miyako grammar 405
30. 17. Hateruma Yaeyama grammar 423
31. 18. Dunan grammar (Yonaguni Ryukyuan) 449
32. IV. Sociolinguistics
33. 19. Substrate-influenced Japanese and code-switching 481
34. 20. Local language varieties and the media 511
35. 21. Uchinaaguchi in the linguistic landscape of Heiwa Dōri and Makishi Market 531
36. 22. Uchinaaguchi as an online symbolic resource within and across the Okinawan diaspora 553
37. 23. Orthography development 575
38. V. Sociology of language
39. 24. Japanese language spread 593
40. 25. Language shift 613
41. 26. Language and identity in Okinawa and Amami: Past, present and future 631
42. 27. Linguistic and cultural revitalization 649
43. 28. Chinese kanwa textbooks: Language education, power and cultural expansion 667
44. 29. Ryukyuan languages in Ryukyuan music 685
45. VI. Bibliography
46. 30. A selected bibliography of Ryukyuan dialectology 705
47. Index 721