Handbook of the Ryukyuan languages : history, structure, and use /
This handbook offers 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. Each of the more than 30 chaptersdelineates the research history of its area, comprises the most importan...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2015]
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| Series: | Handbooks of Japanese language and linguistics.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; List of tables; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Ryukyuan languages and Ryukyuan linguistics; I. Overview; 1. The Linguistic archeology of the Ryukyu Islands; 2. Proto-Ryukyuan; 3. A Sketch History of Pre-Chamberlainian Western Studies of Ryukyuan; 4. B.J. Bettelheim 1849: The first grammar of Ryukyuan; II. Linguistic features; 5. Ryukyuan languages: A grammar overview; 6. A generative approach to focusing in Okinawan; 7. Lexicon.
- 8. Phonological aspects of Ryukyuan languages9. Intonation in Okinawan; 10. The tense-aspect-mood systems of the Ryukyuan languages; 11. Tense, Aspect, and Mood in Miyara Yaeyaman; 12. Okinawan kakari musubi in historical and comparative perspectives; III. Grammars of individual languages; 13. Amami grammar; 14. Okinoerabu grammar; 15. Shuri Okinawan grammar; 16. Tarama Miyako grammar; 17. Hateruma Yaeyama grammar; 18. Dunan grammar (Yonaguni Ryukyuan); IV. Sociolinguistics; 19. Substrate-influenced Japanese and code-switching; 20. Local language varieties and the media.
- 21. Uchinaaguchi in the linguistic landscape of Heiwa Dori and Makishi Market22. Uchinaaguchi as an online symbolic resource within and across the Okinawan diaspora; 23. Orthography development; V. Sociology of language; 24. Japanese language spread; 25. Language shift; 26. Language and identity in Okinawa and Amami: Past, present and future; 27. Linguistic and cultural revitalization; 28. Chinese kanwa textbooks: Language education, power and cultural expansion; 29. Ryukyuan languages in Ryukyuan music; VI. Bibliography; 30. A selected bibliography of Ryukyuan dialectology; Index.
