Knowledge base · Part XXII — Glossed Texts
168. A Glossed Uwepeker (Prose Folktale)
What are the defining linguistic features of a prose folktale narrative, including person marking and speech framing?
散文説話の物語には、人称標示や引用の枠組みなど、どのような言語的特徴があるか？
A complete uwepeker prose folktale presented in four-tier interlinear gloss with running grammatical commentary cross-referenced clause-by-clause to the analytic chapters.
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Local network
The chapter, its sections, the sources it cites, the chapters it cross-references, the forms it mentions most, and the claims grouped under it with the sources that assert, propose, doubt or reject each.
Sources
| Source | Citations | Without page | Statements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Endō 2022 | 13 | 13 | |
| Satō 2008 | 8 | 1 | |
| Bugaeva 2008 | 6 | 4 | |
| Satō 2004 | 2 | 2 | |
| aynu-corpora Discord 2023–2026 | 2 | 2 | |
| ILCAA Ainu materials 1976 | 2 | ||
| Nikitina & Bugaeva 2021 | 1 | 1 | |
| Tamura 1996 | 1 | 1 | |
| Ainu Koraci 1991 | 1 | ||
| Radio School text 2001 | 1 | ||
| Hirosawa 2026 | 1 | ||
| Nakagawa 2024 | 1 | 1 | |
| Ōno 2022 | 1 | 1 | |
| Refsing 1986 | 1 | 1 |
Related chapters
- Index of Grammatical Morphemes and Affixes ×16
- Index of Subjects ×6
- Quotative Complementation and Reported Speech (sekor) ×2
- First-Person Narration, the Logophoric Fourth Person, and Reported Discourse ×2
- The Oral-Literature Genre System and Its Grammatical Signatures ×1
- The Sakehe Refrain, Verse Meter, and the Structure of Sung Verse ×1
- Gendered Speech and Pragmatic Registers ×1
- ruwe ne — the Inferential / Visual-Trace Evidential ×1
- The Indefinite/Fourth Person: Forms, Reference, and Agent-Defocusing ×1
- Honorific and Logophoric Uses of the Fourth Person ×1
- Architecture of the Personal-Affix System: The Four Persons and the S/A/O Paradigms ×1
- Reference Tracking and Argument Continuity ×1
- Narrative TAM and Evidential Patterning by Genre ×1
- The Elevated/Poetic Register: Archaic Morphology and Formulaic Diction ×1
- A Glossed Everyday-Conversation Text ×1
Forms mentioned
sekor 5uwepeker 4a= 3=an 3tuytak 2kamuy uwepeker 2ruwe ne 2isoytak 2ku= 2sakehe 1repni 1irupaye 1yukar 1pananpe 1penanpe 1pana-n-pe 1pena-n-pe 1panakuru 1penakuru 1kur 1pe 1an 1… sekor … isoytak 1ek-an 1ye 1hawki 1hine 1akusu 1yayan-itak 1atomte-itak 1e- 1o- 1ko- 1ona 1unu 1
Sections
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The prose tale in the genre system 13 sentences· 2 examples
What dialectal terms are used for the prose folktale genre across different regions of Hokkaido?
Sub-genre types and typical themes 15 sentences· 1 examples
What sub-categories of the prose folktale genre are recognized, and what is the default type?
Opening and closing formulae 7 sentences· 1 examples
What formulaic expressions are used to open and close human prose tales?
Person of narration: the fourth-person narrator-protagonist 17 sentences· 1 examples
What verb forms mark the narrator as protagonist in prose tales, and how do they differ from ordinary first-person forms?
The quotative frame and participant tracking 8 sentences
What complementizer and reporting verbs introduce direct speech and thought in prose tales?
Register: the everyday frame and its limits 10 sentences
How does the language of prose tales differ from that of epics in vocabulary, grammar, and register?