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Title Handbook of the Ryukyuan languages : history, structure, and use / edited by Patrick Heinrich, Shinsho Miyara, Michinori Shimoji
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]

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Series Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics ; v. 11
Handbooks of Japanese language and linguistics.
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
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
Analysis Grammar Writing
Historical Linguistics
Language Endangerment
Language Revival and Revitalization
Ryukyuan Languages
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Ryukyuan language -- Grammar
Ryukyuan language -- Dialects
Ryukyuan language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Japanese
Ryukyuan language -- Terms and phrases
Ryukyuan language -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Japanese language -- Dialects -- History
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages.
Japanese language -- Dialects
Ryukyuan language
Ryukyuan language -- Dialects
Ryukyuan language -- Grammar
Grammatik
Ryūkyūanisch
Japanska språket -- historia.
Grammatik.
Dialekter.
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals
History
Dictionaries
Form Electronic book
Author Heinrich, Patrick, editor
Miyara, Shinshō, 1946- editor.
Shimoji, Michinori, editor.
LC no. 2014043101
ISBN 1614511152
9781614511151
9781501510717
1501510711
1614511160
9781614511168