26.431, Books: Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages: Heinrich, Miyara, Shimoji (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:08:33
From: Linda Steglich [linda.steglich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages: Heinrich, Miyara, Shimoji (eds.)

 


Title: Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages 
Subtitle: History, Structure, and Use 
Series Title: Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics 11  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/181931?format=G 


Editor: Patrick Heinrich
Editor: Shinsho Miyara
Editor: Michinori Shimoji

Electronic: ISBN:  9781501510717 Pages: 723 Price: Europe EURO 299.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781614511618 Pages: 723 Price: Europe EURO 299.00


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Genetic Classification
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics

Language Family(ies): Japanese Family
                      Ryukyuan 


Written In: English  (eng)

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