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Part I. Overview of Ainu Studies 1. The Ainu language (Anna Bugaeva, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics [NINJAL]) 2. Early Japanese records of the Ainu language (Tomomi Sato, Hokkaido University) 3. European records of the Ainu language (Alfred F. Majewicz, Adam Mickiewicz University) 4. History and origins of the Ainu language (Osami Okuda, Sapporo Gakuin University) 5. Language contact between Ainu and Northern languages (Itsuji Tangiku, Center for Ainu & Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University & Hidetoshi Shiraishi, Sapporo Gakuin University) 6. Hokkaido dialects of Ainu (Hiroshi Nakagawa, Chiba University) & Mika Fukazawa, Chiba University) 7. Sakhalin dialects of Ainu (Itsuji Tangiku, Center for Ainu & Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University) 8. Sociolinguistic situation of Ainu and revitalization movements (Tetsuhito Oono) 9. Ainu oral literature (Shiho Endo, Chiba University) Part II: Typologically Interesting Characteristics of the Ainu Language 10. Phonetics and phonology (Hidetoshi Shiraishi, Sapporo Gakuin University) 11. Parts of speech: focusing on nominal classification (Hiroshi Nakagawa, Chiba University) 12. Grammatical relations (Anna Bugaeva NINJAL) 13. Verbal valency (Anna Bugaeva NINJAL & Miki Kobayashi,Chiba University & NINJAL) 14. Noun incorporation (Tomomi Sato, Hokkaido University) 15. Aspect and evidentially (Yasushige Takahashi, Center for Ainu & Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University) 16. Verbal plurality (Hiroshi Nakagawa ,Chiba University) Appendix: Sample texts Index