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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464403603321

Titolo

Handbook of the Ryukyuan languages : history, structure, and use / / edited by Patrick Heinrich, Shinsho Miyara, Michinori Shimoji

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-5015-1071-1

1-61451-115-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (792 p.)

Collana

Handbooks of Japanese language and linguistics ; ; volume 11

Disciplina

495.6/7095229

Soggetti

Ryukyuan language - Grammar

Ryukyuan language - Dialects

Ryukyuan language - Grammar, Comparative - Japanese

Ryukyuan language

Japanese language - Dialects - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 703-720) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface / Shibatani, Masayoshi / Kageyama, Taro -- Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics / Shibatani, Masayoshi / Kageyama, Taro -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements / Heinrich, Patrick / Miyara, Shinsho / Shimoji, Michinori -- Contributors -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: Ryukyuan languages and Ryukyuan linguistics / Heinrich, Patrick / Miyara, Shinsho / Shimoji, Michinori -- I. Overview -- 1. The Linguistic archeology of the Ryukyu Islands / Pellard, Thomas -- 2. Proto-Ryukyuan / Bentley, John R. -- 3. A Sketch History of Pre-Chamberlainian Western Studies of Ryukyuan / Osterkamp, Sven -- 4. B. J. Bettelheim 1849: The first grammar of Ryukyuan / Griesenhofer, Christopher -- II. Linguistic features -- 5. Ryukyuan languages: A grammar overview / Karimata, Shigehisa -- 6. A generative approach to focusing in Okinawan / Miyara, Shinsho -- 7. Lexicon / Lawrence, Wayne -- 8. Phonological aspects of Ryukyuan languages / Miyara, Shinsho -- 9. Intonation in Okinawan / Nagano-



Madsen, Yasuko -- 10. The tense-aspect-mood systems of the Ryukyuan languages / Arakaki, Tomoko -- 11. Tense, Aspect, and Mood in Miyara Yaeyaman / Davis, Christopher / Lau, Tyler -- 12. Okinawan kakari musubi in historical and comparative perspectives / Shinzato, Rumiko -- III. Grammars of individual languages -- 13. Amami grammar / Niinaga, Yuto -- 14. Okinoerabu grammar / van der Lubbe, Gijs / Tokunaga, Akiko -- 15. Shuri Okinawan grammar / Miyara, Shinsho -- 16. Tarama Miyako grammar / Aoi, Hayato -- 17. Hateruma Yaeyama grammar / Aso, Reiko -- 18. Dunan grammar (Yonaguni Ryukyuan) / Yamada, Masahiro / Pellard, Thomas / Shimoji, Michinori -- IV. Sociolinguistics -- 19. Substrate-influenced Japanese and code-switching / Anderson, Mark -- 20. Local language varieties and the media / Sugita, Yuko -- 21. Uchinaaguchi in the linguistic landscape of Heiwa Dōri and Makishi Market / Petrucci, Peter R. / Miyahira, Katsuyuki -- 22. Uchinaaguchi as an online symbolic resource within and across the Okinawan diaspora / Miyahira, Katsuyuki / Petrucci, Peter R. -- 23. Orthography development / Ogawa, Shinji -- V. Sociology of language -- 24. Japanese language spread / Heinrich, Patrick -- 25. Language shift / Heinrich, Patrick -- 26. Language and identity in Okinawa and Amami: Past, present and future / Clarke, Hugh -- 27. Linguistic and cultural revitalization / Hara, Kiyoshi / Heinrich, Patrick -- 28. Chinese kanwa textbooks: Language education, power and cultural expansion / Kádár, Dániel Z. -- 29. Ryukyuan languages in Ryukyuan music / Gillan, Matt -- VI. Bibliography -- 30. A selected bibliography of Ryukyuan dialectology / Shigeno, Hiromi / Shimoji, Kayoko / Matayoshi, Satomi / Nishioka, Satoshi -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The UNESCO atlas on endangered languages recognizes the Ryukyuan languages as constituting languages in their own right. This represents a dramatic shift in the ontology of Japan's linguistic make-up. Ryukyuan linguistics needs to be established as an independent field of study with its own research agenda and objects. This handbook delineates that the UNESCO classification is now well established and adequate. Linguists working on the Ryukyuan languages are well advised to refute the ontological status of the Ryukyuan languages as dialects. The Ryukyuan languages constitute a branch of the Japonic language family, which consists of five unroofed Abstand (language by distance) languages.The Handbook of Ryukyuan Languages provides for the most appropriate and up-to-date answers pertaining to Ryukyuan language structures and use, and the ways in which these languages relate to Ryukyuan society and history. It comprises 33 chapters, written by the leading experts of Ryukyuan languages. Each chapter delineates the boundaries and the research history of the field it addresses, comprises the most important and representative information.