A Corpus-based Typological Study of Ainu Verbal Categories

阿伊努语，一种在日本北部濒临死亡的语言。阿伊努人的基因归属尚不清楚。它对于研究东北亚的语言历史和理解人类知识和经验的多样性的重要性怎么估计都不为过。在这个项目中，我继续建立了一个带注释的Ainu音频材料语料库。在此基础上，从类型学的角度考察了阿伊努人的动词范畴，即语态。Ainu语态的形态句法丰富，包括倒置、反身、反被动、补语、使役和反语，我在授权期内发表了其中的大部分。此外，不同的声音可能以许多可能的方式结合在一起，我的Ainu价态数据库(ValPal Leipzig数据库的一部分)就说明了这一点。作为一个整体，该项目旨在向世界开放阿伊努人研究领域，帮助人们欣赏阿伊努人对人类智力遗产的语言和文化贡献。

Ainu, a moribund language in Northern Japan. The genetic affiliation of Ainu is unknown. Its importance for the study Northeast Asia's linguistic past and for understanding the diversity of human knowledge and experience may hardly be overestimated. Within this project, I continued buiding up a corpus of an annotated corpus of Ainu audio materials. On its basis I have investigated Ainu verbal categories, namely voices, in a typological perspective. The morphosyntactic wealth of Ainu voices includes reciprocals, reflexives, antipassives, applicatives, causatives, and anticausatives, most of which I have published on within the grant period. Moreover, various voices may combine in many possible ways, which I have illustrated by my Ainu valency database (a part of the ValPal Leipzig database). The project as a whole is aimed at opening the field of Ainu studies to the world and helping people to appreciate linguistic and cultural contribution of the Ainu to human intellectual heritage.