1967 Volume 1967 Issue 50 Pages 100-120
I have tried to describe the Sakhalin Raychishka dialect of Ainu on the method of Generative Grammar by N. Chomsky. Even though this is not a full description, I have attempted to draw a brief syntactic structure of the language by setting up here 10 Phrase Structure Rules (PSR 1-10), Lexical Rules (LR), 7 Transformational Rules (TR 1-7), and 4 Morphophonemic Rules (MR 1-4) on the given TR. In the case of the LR, I have tried to give as much information as possible relating to the given PS and T rules in order to help the readers understand more easily this unknown language.
Under each group of Rules, I have added detailed explanations giving examples, and at the end I have shown the process of generating sentences in terms of the given rules, drawing the trees of Phrase Marker.