Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages: History, Structure, and Use

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Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages

History, Structure, and Use

Edited by: Patrick Heinrich , Shinsho Miyara and Michinori Shimoji

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2015

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Volume 11 | Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL]

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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.

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Patrick Heinrich, Dokkyo University, Saitama, Japan; Shinsho Miyara, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan; Michinori Shimoji, Gunma Prefectural Women's University, Gunma, Japan.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxv
Acknowledgements Patrick Heinrich, Shinsho Miyara and Michinori Shimoji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	lii
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	liii
List of tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	lx
List of figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	lxiii
List of abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	lxv
Introduction: Ryukyuan languages and Ryukyuan linguistics Patrick Heinrich, Shinsho Miyara and Michinori Shimoji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Overview
1. The Linguistic archeology of the Ryukyu Islands Thomas Pellard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. Proto-Ryukyuan John R. Bentley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
3. A Sketch History of Pre-Chamberlainian Western Studies of Ryukyuan Sven Osterkamp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
4. B. J. Bettelheim 1849: The first grammar of Ryukyuan Christopher Griesenhofer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
II. Linguistic features
5. Ryukyuan languages: A grammar overview Shigehisa Karimata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
6. A generative approach to focusing in Okinawan Shinsho Miyara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
7. Lexicon Wayne Lawrence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
8. Phonological aspects of Ryukyuan languages Shinsho Miyara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
9. Intonation in Okinawan Yasuko Nagano-Madsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
10. The tense-aspect-mood systems of the Ryukyuan languages Tomoko Arakaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
11. Tense, Aspect, and Mood in Miyara Yaeyaman Christopher Davis and Tyler Lau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
12. Okinawan kakari musubi in historical and comparative perspectives Rumiko Shinzato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
III. Grammars of individual languages
13. Amami grammar Yuto Niinaga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
14. Okinoerabu grammar Gijs van der Lubbe and Akiko Tokunaga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
15. Shuri Okinawan grammar Shinsho Miyara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
16. Tarama Miyako grammar Hayato Aoi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
17. Hateruma Yaeyama grammar Reiko Aso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
18. Dunan grammar (Yonaguni Ryukyuan) Masahiro Yamada, Thomas Pellard and Michinori Shimoji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449
IV. Sociolinguistics
19. Substrate-influenced Japanese and code-switching Mark Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
20. Local language varieties and the media Yuko Sugita Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511
21. Uchinaaguchi in the linguistic landscape of Heiwa Dōri and Makishi Market Peter R. Petrucci and Katsuyuki Miyahira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	531
22. Uchinaaguchi as an online symbolic resource within and across the Okinawan diaspora Katsuyuki Miyahira and Peter R. Petrucci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	553
23. Orthography development Shinji Ogawa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	575
V. Sociology of language
24. Japanese language spread Patrick Heinrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	593
25. Language shift Patrick Heinrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	613
26. Language and identity in Okinawa and Amami: Past, present and future Hugh Clarke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	631
27. Linguistic and cultural revitalization Kiyoshi Hara and Patrick Heinrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	649
28. Chinese kanwa textbooks: Language education, power and cultural expansion Dániel Z. Kádár Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	667
29. Ryukyuan languages in Ryukyuan music Matt Gillan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	685
VI. Bibliography
30. A selected bibliography of Ryukyuan dialectology Hiromi Shigeno, Kayoko Shimoji, Satomi Matayoshi and Satoshi Nishioka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	705
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	721

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eBook published on:

February 17, 2015

eBook ISBN:

9781614511151

Hardcover published on:

January 19, 2015

Hardcover ISBN:

9781614511618

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Front matter:

67

Main content:

723

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511151

eBook ISBN: 9781614511151

Hardcover ISBN: 9781614511618

Keywords for this book

Ryukyuan Languages; Historical Linguistics; Grammar Writing; Language Endangerment; Language Revival and Revitalization

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Museums, Institutions of Language Minorities in Japan

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