Introduction to the Japonic Languages

Michinori Shimoji is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Kyushu University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Australian National University in 2009. His dissertation was published under the title A Grammar of Irabu, a Southern Ryukyuan Language (Kyushu University Press, 2017). His major research interest concerns the description of Japonic languages and typological studies based on the Japonic data. He is co-editor of the Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages (De Gruyter Mouton, 2015).

• ContentsPrefaceList of Figures and TablesAbbreviations1 The Japonic Languages: an IntroductionMichinori Shimoji2 Tokunoshima (Kagoshima, Northern Ryukyuan)Kanji Kato3 Iheya (Okinawa, Northern Ryukyuan)Salvatore Carlino4 Kin (Okinawa, Northern Ryukyuan)Koji Tamamoto5 Aragusuku (Okinawa, Southern Ryukyuan)Wang Danning6 Shiraho (Okinawa, Southern Ryukyuan)Yuko Urabe7 Nambu (Aomori, Eastern Japanese)Natsuko Nakagawa8 Izumo (Shimane, Western Japanese)Tatsuya Hirako9 Yanagawa (Fukuoka, Kyūshū Japanese)Aoi Matsuoka10 Shiiba (Miyazaki, Kyūshū Japanese)Michinori Shimoji and Naoyuki HirosawaIndex