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Nakagawa 2001

Nakagawa Hiroshi 中川裕 (2001). アイヌ文化——口承文芸[Ainu culture: oral literature].

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1. proposed that sakehe originally served as an index of the protagonist. no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
2. established the four-function classification adopted by and followed here. no page The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures
3. (via ) argues that elegant and everyday Ainu occupy positions on a continuum keyed to verse-vs-prose and fixedness-vs-improvisation, and proposes that a classification by genre-type — yukar-specific phrases versus prayer-specific phrases — may be more analytically effective than the elegant/everyday dichotomy alone ‹contested›. no page Honorific, Ritual, and Taboo Registers
4. Register is a continuum keyed to verse-vs-prose and improvisation-vs-fixedness, not a binary: Nakagawa argues that elegant and everyday mark stages on this cline, with prayer phrases and yukar phrases constituting sub-variants of the elegant pole rather than a unified "poetic register" distinct from prayer ‹contested›. 5 Narrative TAM and Evidential Patterning by Genre