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2019 Fiscal Year Research-status Report

Towards understanding dynamics of language change in Ainu

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K02743
Research InstitutionTokyo University of Science

Principal Investigator

A Bugaeva  東京理科大学, 理学部第一部教養学科, 准教授 (40550075)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 佐藤 知己  北海道大学, 文学研究院, 教授 (40231344)
Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2022-03-31
KeywordsAinu dialects / old records / Kuril Ainu / Nivkh / language change / language contact
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

This project is aimed at investigating (1) natural change in Ainu through available old records of the less described dialects and (2) change induced by contact with Japanese in Hokkaido and Nivkh in Sakhalin through linguistic fieldwork on Nivkh. In FY 2019, we focused on (1) by investigating Kuril Ainu, a missing link that is expected to provide clues for a finer classification of Ainu dialects, through deciphering an old document Kuril’skie Slova [Kuril words] (1844?) which we obtained in St. Peteresburg. Our goal is to advance knowledge of the history of Ainu, which is a very promissing area of Ainu research.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.

Reason

My Co-Investigator T.Sato and I have deciphered an old document Kuril’skie Slova [Kuril words] (1844?) and started preparing a detailed commentary towards its publication. Together with my collaborator Ekaterina Gruzdeva (Helsinki U), we summarized the results of our FY2018 fieldwork on the Amur dialect of Nivkh and presented on documentation in a post-language period: in search for Ainu roots in the Lower Amur region at the international conference “Documentation of Languages and Dialects of Indigenous Peoples of Russia”. Also, Ekaterina Gruzdeva has presented on reconstructing language contacts in the Amur-Sakhalin area, morphosyntactic transformation of Nivkh in the context of the Amur Linguistic Area and many other project related issues.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

In FY 2020, my Co-Investigator T. Sato and I will continue working on the Kuril dialect of Ainu. Gruzdeva , M. Temina, J. Janhunen and I plan to continue working on the reconstruction of language contacts in the Amur-Sakhalin area and organizing our Nivkh fieldwork materials.

Causes of Carryover

The amount of money left is insignificant.

  • Research Products

    (17 results)

All 2020 2019 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (2 results) Journal Article (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 3 results) Presentation (9 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 8 results,  Invited: 1 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] SPF ARAN (Archive)/Institute for Linguistic Studies(ロシア連邦)

    • Country Name
      RUSSIA FEDERATION
    • Counterpart Institution
      SPF ARAN (Archive)/Institute for Linguistic Studies
  • [Int'l Joint Research] the University of Helsinki(フィンランド)

    • Country Name
      FINLAND
    • Counterpart Institution
      the University of Helsinki
  • [Journal Article] Demonstratives in Nivkh: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis2020

    • Author(s)
      Gruzdeva, Ekaterina
    • Journal Title

      Studia Orientalia Electronica

      Volume: 8(1) Pages: 1-60

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] アイヌ語における文法カテゴリーの転換について2020

    • Author(s)
      佐藤知己
    • Journal Title

      北方言語研究

      Volume: 10 Pages: 219-230

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Dokumentirovanie v postjazykovoj period: v poiskakh ajnskikh kornej na Nizhnem Amure [Documentation in a post-language period: In search for Ainu roots in the Lower Amur region].2019

    • Author(s)
      Bugaeva, Anna, Ekaterina Gruzdeva, Marina Temina, Juha Janhunen
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the International conference “Documentation of Languages and Dialects of Indigenous Peoples of Russia”, Institute for Linguistic Studies

      Volume: 1 Pages: 12-14

    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Cinq questions a Anna Bugaeva2019

    • Author(s)
      Bugaeva, Anna
    • Journal Title

      Lettre de la maison de la culture du Japon

      Volume: 61(4) Pages: 3-4

    • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Non-possessibles and possessive classifier systems in indigenous American languages2019

    • Author(s)
      Nichols, Johanna & Bugaeva, Anna
    • Organizer
      SSILA Summer Meeting UC Davis
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Who is that speaking? Towards a typology of speech attributing devices2019

    • Author(s)
      Nikitina, Tatiana, Anna Bugaeva, Abbie Hantgan, Vadim Kimmelman, Stef Spronck, Rebecca Voll
    • Organizer
      The 13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, University of Pavia, Italy
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Dokumentirovanie v postjazykovoj period: v poiskakh ajnskikh kornej na Nizhnem Amure [Documentation in a post-language period: In search for Ainu roots in the Lower Amur region].2019

    • Author(s)
      Bugaeva, Anna, Ekaterina Gruzdeva, Marina Temina, Juha Janhunen
    • Organizer
      International conference “Documentation of Languages and Dialects of Indigenous Peoples of Russia”, Institute for Linguistic Studies, RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] How old is polysynthesis in Ainu2019

    • Author(s)
      Bugaeva, Anna
    • Organizer
      日本北方言語学会第2回大会、富山大学
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Observations on the Indigenous toponymy at the Amur-Sakhalin intersection2019

    • Author(s)
      Temina, Marina & Ekaterina Gruzdeva
    • Organizer
      ARRAN - ECOLOGY OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES, the University of Helsinki, Finland
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Reconstructing language contacts in the Amur-Sakhalin area2019

    • Author(s)
      Gruzdeva, Ekaterina
    • Organizer
      International conference “Typology of small-scale multilingualism”, Lyon
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Morphosyntactic transformation of Nivkh in the context of the Amur Linguistic Area2019

    • Author(s)
      Gruzdeva, Ekaterina
    • Organizer
      The second conference on language contact in the circumpolar world, Moscow
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Marking of reported information in Nivkh (Paleosiberian)2019

    • Author(s)
      Gruzdeva, Ekaterina
    • Organizer
      Workshop: Reported Discourse across Languages and Cultures, Paris
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] River as an anchor of spatial reference in Nivkh2019

    • Author(s)
      Gruzdeva, Ekaterina
    • Organizer
      Down by the water. Interdisciplinary symposium on the role of water transit points in past societies, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] 蝦夷言留の研究2020

    • Author(s)
      佐藤知己
    • Total Pages
      103
    • Publisher
      北海道大学大学院文学研究院
  • [Book] アイヌ語調査資料のデータベース化に関する基礎的研究(9)2020

    • Author(s)
      佐藤知己
    • Total Pages
      168
    • Publisher
      北海道大学アイヌ先住民センター

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Published: 2021-01-27  

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