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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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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Heinrich, Patrick; Miyara, Shinsho; Shimoji, Michinori
Published: De Gruyter Mouton,
Publisher Address: Berlin/Boston :
Publication Dates: [2015]
©2015
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Handbooks of japanese language and linguistics; 11
Subjects:
Japanese language > Dialects > History.
Ryukyuan language > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Ryukyuan language > Dialects.
Ryukyuan language > Grammar, Comparative > Japanese.
Ryukyuan language > Grammar.
Ryukyuan language > Terms and phrases.
Andere Sprachen.
Japonic Languages.
Linguistics, Communication Studies.
Non-Indo-European Languages.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781614511151
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Summary: 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 important and representative information on the state of research, spells out future research desiderata, and includes a comprehensive bibliography. The handbook will serve as standard reference work for many years to come.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(lxvii,723pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print edition.
ISBN: 9781614511151
Index Number: PL693
CLC: H648.6
Contents: Frontmatter --
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 /
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 /
5. Ryukyuan languages: A grammar overview /
6. A generative approach to focusing in Okinawan /
7. Lexicon /
8. Phonological aspects of Ryukyuan languages /
9. 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 /
13. Amami grammar /
14. Okinoerabu grammar /
15. Shuri Okinawan grammar /
16. Tarama Miyako grammar /
17. Hateruma Yaeyama grammar /
18. Dunan grammar (Yonaguni Ryukyuan) /
19. Substrate-influenced Japanese and code-switching /
20. Local language varieties and the media /
21. Uchinaaguchi in the linguistic landscape of Heiwa D ri and Makishi Market /
22. Uchinaaguchi as an online symbol

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