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Satō Tomomi 佐藤知己 (2025). 書評：中川裕『アイヌ語広文典』[Review of Nakagawa Hiroshi's Ainugo kōbunten].

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1. A critical review of its analyses and relation to earlier grammars is available in . no page The History of Ainu Language Description and Previous Research
2. Satō argues that a single arity value fails for the copula, for auxiliaries, and for ditransitives, and replaces it with three simultaneous layers — an invariant argument-slot count, a macrorole valency in the sense of that the person affixes index, and the morphological valency of the derived word — while flagging his own scheme as something still to be justified ; ‹contested›. 22–26 The Verb Word and Its Position-Class Template
3. Nakagawa assigns the third person no overt affix and no arity value, so that the calculus balances; Satō holds that a zero third-person affix is needed to explain the two-index cap and the impossibility of certain three-participant combinations ; ; ‹contested›. 23–24 The Verb Word and Its Position-Class Template
4. Nakagawa and the Handbook treat the postposed pa, eastern ci, and the Sakhalin cognate as a single clitic class distinct from the root-bound suffix; Satō's Chitose data make the clitic analysis doubtful, since postposed -an pa is rare and a speaker rejects *yaynu-as pa in favour of yaynupa-as ; ‹contested›. 25–26 The Verb Word and Its Position-Class Template
5. The fourth question is the four-place class: Nakagawa lists causativized ditransitives such as omarere as four-place verbs, while Satō warns that the type is too marginal to support a regular category ; ‹contested›. 22–23 The Verb Word and Its Position-Class Template
6. Satō credits this arity concept as Nakagawa's central theoretical contribution . 20 Transitivity, Valence Classes, and Ambitransitivity
7. Satō declines to raise so rare a configuration to a regular class, given that the ordinary three-place verb already exceeds the two-index cap and is syntactically special on its own ‹contested›. 22–23 Transitivity, Valence Classes, and Ambitransitivity
8. Nakagawa's arity excludes any third-person affix, while Satō holds that a zero third-person affix is required to explain why a verb cannot host three person indexes — why, for instance, *en-e-raykere 'he makes me kill you' is impossible, the two overt affixes having already filled the cap with no room for the third-person causer ; ; ‹contested›. 23–24 Transitivity, Valence Classes, and Ambitransitivity
9. Satō's Chitose data make the clitic analysis less secure there: =an pa is rare, a consultant rejected *yaynu-as pa in favour of the bound yaynupa-as, and okaypa is marginal ‹contested›. 25–26 Verbal Number: Suppletive Stems and the Pluractional -pa
10. Third person is segmentally zero in all attested forms, and her explicit Ø- notation is descriptively harmless; the theoretical status of that zero is nonetheless disputed, with Nakagawa treating it as the absence of an affix and Satō positing a zero third-person affix to preserve the two-index cap ; ; ‹contested›. 23–24 Denominal and Deverbal Verb Derivation