2021 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Towards understanding dynamics of language change in Ainu
| Project/Area Number |
17K02743
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Science |
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Principal Investigator |
A Bugaeva 東京理科大学, 教養教育研究院神楽坂キャンパス教養部, 准教授 (40550075)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
佐藤 知己 北海道大学, 文学研究院, 教授 (40231344)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | Ainu dialects / old records / Kuril Ainu / Nivkh / language change / language contact / possession / head-marking |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This year's research achievements focus on (1) the least described Kuril dialect
of Ainu through the study of old records and on (2) Nivkh, which was a contact language of Ainu in Sakhalin, through our field materials. Our goal is to advance knowledge of the history of Ainu.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Bugaeva and Sato published a newly discovered Kuril Ainu glossary by Сaptain V. M. Golovnin (1811) and Ainu upaskuma text recorded by N.A. Nevskij (1922) from the SpB archive. Gruzdeva and Bugaeva published an annotated Nivkh text from their fieldwork materials. Bugaeva et al. published an article on possession in Ainu showing that typologically Ainu is a Pacific Rim language and gave talks on head-making and cases in Ainu in a diachronic perspective. Sato continued deciphering and generalizing about the use of kana in the Edo period Ainu documents written by the Japanese. Gruzdeva published on Nivkh evidentiality and the diversification of Nivkh varieties shading light on the history of Nivkh.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In FY 2022, Bugaeva and Sato and will continue working on the Kuril dialect of Ainu and Saru Ainu texts by N.A. Nevskij. On March 31, 2022, we plan to submit a book “Kuril’skie slova: an annotated edition of a Kuril Ainu glossary (1844)” to Brill. Gruzdeva , M. Temina, J. Janhunen, and Bugaeva will continue working on the reconstruction of language contacts in the Amur-Sakhalin area and organizing their Nivkh fieldwork materials.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Due to the COVID-19 situation. Funds will be used for preparing materials for publication.
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