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Chiri 1942

Chiri Mashiho 知里真志保 (1942). アイヌ語法研究——樺太方言を中心として[A study of Ainu grammar, centred on the Sakhalin dialect]. 樺太庁博物館報告 [Reports of the Karafuto Government Museum], 4(4): 51–172, Toyohara.

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1. Chiri subsequently undertook fieldwork on Sakhalin and produced a grammar centred on the Sakhalin dialects . no page The History of Ainu Language Description and Previous Research
2. Chiri's separate grammar of the Sakhalin dialect falls outside this grammar's primary scope; it is cited when the Hokkaido–Sakhalin structural comparison in requires a Sakhalin-side primary source. no page Written Sources: Grammars, Dictionaries, and the Philological Record
3. The non-phonemic analysis stands for the accent-dialect majority and is adopted here for those varieties ‹contested›. 461 The Laryngeals: Glottal Stop, /h/, and the Final-h Question
4. Historically, Kindaichi & Chiri still posited a 形容詞 class with its own person-inflected paradigm; Chiri's later work rejected the verb/adjective distinction and coined the unified term 用詞 for the merged class; all subsequent description has inherited that move — historically contested, now the consensus of the modern literature ‹consensus›. no page The Word-Class Inventory and the Noun/Verb Bipartition
5. argued that since adjective-meaning words and action verbs share their full inflectional frame, their person-marking morphology, and their clause-final behaviour, positing two classes serves no formal purpose. no page The 'No Adjective Class' Thesis: Property Concepts as Stative Verbs
6. Chiri's reanalysis (, summarized in ) proposed the 用詞 category — a class of stative verbs covering property meanings — and collapsed the distinction. no page Property-Concept (Adjectival) Predication without a Copula
7. Kindaichi held that Ainu makes no temporal distinction yet renders everything as past, the moment of speech being too fleeting to fix; Chiri narrowed the past reading to non-stative predicates, leaving statives to translate as a Japanese -te iru present; and Refsing argued that a language without the category of tense does not order events on a linear timeline at all, so that no past translation is more correct than a present one ; ‹contested›. 96–97 Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality: Overview
8. Chiri's earlier formulation emphasizes the affective dimension: surprise at an unexpected fact or result . 158 The Perfective/Anterior Particle a (a, a…a, aan)
9. Chiri's classic label for it is 持続態 durative, set against 進行態 progressive (kor an) and 完了態 perfective (wa isam / wa okere) in his three-way aspect classification ; . 503–504 The 'Appearance' Continuative: siran, siri…, and kane an
10. Yoshikawa lists it among the Saru–Chitose existential aspectual forms; Chiri's gloss '…hine an = be …-ing' applies the durative label to it ; . 503–504 The 'Appearance' Continuative: siran, siri…, and kane an
11. An earlier analysis held that ro is a "first-plural-inclusive command particle", a claim advanced in and repeated in . §118 The Sentence-Final Particle System and Illocutionary Force
12. The 係助詞 label for the emphatic members of these pairs was introduced by (via ) and is endorsed by ; . §118 The Sentence-Final Particle System and Illocutionary Force
13. The constraint was first stated by and systematized by : sekor co-occurs with intransitive reporting verbs because the quoted string is adverbial — it is not the object of the reporting verb. 572–573 First-Person Narration, the Logophoric Fourth Person, and Reported Discourse