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Vovin 1993

Vovin, Alexander (1993). A reconstruction of Proto-Ainu. Brill's Japanese Studies Library 4. Brill, Leiden.

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1. The Pre-Proto-Ainu and Proto-Ainu stages reconstructed by and revised by rest entirely on internal reconstruction, without an external comparative check. no page The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
2. The most consequential internal methodological problem in Proto-Ainu reconstruction arose from 's choice to use Austroasiatic as the typological template for his consonant inventory, positing a bloated 12-consonant stop system to explain the distribution of the affiliative suffix. no page The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
3. All three published reviewers of independently concluded that this background assumption vitiates the consonant reconstruction: Sidwell (1996), Abondolo (1997), and Witczak (1999), as summarised by . no page The Genetic Position of Ainu: Isolate Status and Macro-Comparison Controversies
4. The Handbook chapter by critically reviewed earlier Proto-Ainu reconstruction proposals, including those of , and advanced a revised segmental and suprasegmental inventory. no page The History of Ainu Language Description and Previous Research
5. The pattern is confined to two derivational contexts; it is absent from the plural suffix -pa (kom-pa, not *kom-po), from personal prefixes (ku-kor, not *ko-kor), and from underived forms; and no backness or tongue-root feature uniformly characterizes the alternating set ; ; . 43 The Vowel Inventory and Vowel Realization
6. Under this account the /h/ in sapa-ha, siki-hi, etc. reflects a historical boundary consonant or coda that became /h/ rather than zero in the possessive environment ; ‹speculative›. no page Morphophonology of the Affiliative Suffix and Echo/Copy Vowels
7. The two primary sources for this chapter are — the monograph-length reconstruction of Proto-Ainu, abbreviated RPA — and the critical revision by (abbreviated "New"). no page Proto-Ainu Reconstruction: Segments and Accent Classes
8. The RPA monograph (Vovin 1993) is not in the project repository, so every page reference to RPA is second-hand via Alonso 2022, and load-bearing RPA citations should be verified against the original before finalization . no page Proto-Ainu Reconstruction: Segments and Accent Classes
9. (b) and argued that Proto-Ainu had both length and pitch, with the Sakhalin branch losing accent under Amur-Sakhalin contact. no page Sakhalin and Kuril Ainu: The External Comparison
10. ; ; . no page Macro-Comparison and Deep-Contact Controversies
11. A community proto-Ainu reconstruction for proposes an earlier cluster-initial form *tretar/*dretar on the basis of a Taraika Sakhalin reflex tetar (antitwilight, aynu-corpora Discord 2024-11-24, proposed; ), consistent with the comparative program of and ‹speculative›. no page Synopsis of Lexical-Semantic Fields