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Materials and Methods of Analysis for the Study of the Ainu Language

Southern Hokkaidō and Sakhalin Varieties

Elia Dal Corso    Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    

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This volume is intended to be a practical manual to learn the basics of the Ainu language, in its varieties of Southern Hokkaidō and Sakhalin. Each lesson presents one specific topic that is investigated taking into account both varieties of the language. Three kinds of activities guide the student throughout each lesson to inductively make generalisations on the language that can be supported by linguistic evidence and, possibly, to revise the information they were given as a start of their analysis. In order to do this, the student learns to observe the data, recognize recurring patterns and exceptions, and formulate a description of the language behaviours illustrated by the given examples. At the end of each lesson the student actively gains knowledge of the Ainu language by producing themselves a set of descriptive rules. The course aims at giving the student some basic analytical tools to approach and analyse Ainu language sources. Furthermore, the student will gain knowledge about the genealogical relationship of the Ainu language and about important sociolinguistic issues relative to its past history and present status of vitality.

Published
April 4, 2022
Accepted
Nov. 7, 2021
Submitted
June 14, 2021
Language
EN
ISBN (PRINT)
978-88-6969-604-6
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-585-8
Number of pages
176
Dimensions
16x23 cm
Copyright: © 2022 Elia Dal Corso. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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