The issue of language loss is currently the focus of much linguistic research. This edited volume brings together work by theoretical linguists, field linguists and nonlinguist members of minority communities to provide an integrated view of how language is lost, from sociological and economic as well as from linguistic perspectives. It maps out some of the strategies applied by native communities and professional linguists in the face of language endangerment. Several authors address the understudied issue of what (beyond a linguistic system) is lost when a language becomes obsolescent.
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"This fine collection of papers is a worthy addition to the literature on language endangerment and obsolescence, which has been growing exponentially in recent years. For anyone interested in language contact, language obsolescence, and language shift (death), Endangered Languages is filled with much of value on this topical and important subject. Grenoble and Whaley are to be sincerely thanked for editing this collection." Anthropological Linguistics
"This volume is a vital addition to the literature supporting this important and growing movement within the field of linguistics and indigenous communities." Leanne Hinton, Language in Society
"...to approach this collection from the standpoint of a linguistic typologist is an enlightening task in itself: it forces a constructive engagement with material that the authors have put together with other ends in view...most of the contributions contain lingusitic descriptions, as illustations or evidence, which are detailed enough to interest formal analysts of linguistic diversity in their own right." Linguistic Typology
"This volume is a vital addition to the literature supporting this important and growing movement within the field of linguistics and indigenous communities." Leanne Hinton, Language in Society
"...to approach this collection from the standpoint of a linguistic typologist is an enlightening task in itself: it forces a constructive engagement with material that the authors have put together with other ends in view...most of the contributions contain lingusitic descriptions, as illustations or evidence, which are detailed enough to interest formal analysts of linguistic diversity in their own right." Linguistic Typology
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The issue of language loss is currently the focus of much linguistic research. This edited volume brings together work by theoretical linguists, field linguists and non-linguist members of minority communities to provide an integrated view of how language is lost, from sociological and economic as well as from linguistic perspectives. It maps out some of the strategies applied by native communities and professional linguists in the face of language endangerment. Several authors address the understudied issue of what (beyond a linguistic system) is lost when a language becomes obsolescent.
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It might be said with a certain metaphoric license that languages are seldom admired to death but are frequently despised to death. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
radical language shift, language endangerment, prior ideological clarification, affective suffixes, system morphemes, reversing language shift, endangered languages, content morphemes, structural borrowing, tense concord, endangerment situations, language attrition, morphosyntactic frame, language density, foreign linguists, language vitality, linguistic profession, language erosion, mixed constituents, linguistic documentation, turnover hypothesis, language revitalization, threatened languages, funky one, language loss Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Central Pomo, South America, Native American, Southeast Alaska, United States, Inner Mbugu, Matrix Language, North America, Copper Island, Arizona Tewa, New Zealand, Leo Moses, Normal Mbugu, Alaska Native, Latin America, Soviet Union, Museu Goeldi, Papua New Guinea, Embedded Language, North Queensland, Northwest Coast, Pulap Islanders, Atkan Aleut, Barbareno Chumash, Carol Cornelius New!
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It might be said with a certain metaphoric license that languages are seldom admired to death but are frequently despised to death. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
radical language shift, language endangerment, prior ideological clarification, affective suffixes, system morphemes, reversing language shift, endangered languages, content morphemes, structural borrowing, tense concord, endangerment situations, language attrition, morphosyntactic frame, language density, foreign linguists, language vitality, linguistic profession, language erosion, mixed constituents, linguistic documentation, turnover hypothesis, language revitalization, threatened languages, funky one, language loss Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Central Pomo, South America, Native American, Southeast Alaska, United States, Inner Mbugu, Matrix Language, North America, Copper Island, Arizona Tewa, New Zealand, Leo Moses, Normal Mbugu, Alaska Native, Latin America, Soviet Union, Museu Goeldi, Papua New Guinea, Embedded Language, North Queensland, Northwest Coast, Pulap Islanders, Atkan Aleut, Barbareno Chumash, Carol Cornelius New!
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- Language in the Americas by Joseph Greenberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Endangered Languages (Diogenes library) by R. H. Robins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Iroquois Book Of Rites by Horatio Hale in Back Matter
- History from Below: The Vocabulary of Elisabethville by Andre Yav : Texts, Translation, and Interpretive Essay (Creole Language Library) by Johannes Fabian in Back Matter
- Bilingualism in the Southwest by Paul Turner in Back Matter
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- The Mixed Language Debate: Theoretical and Empirical Advances (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs) by Yaron Matras on 5 pages
- Lesser-Known Languages of South Asia: Status and Policies, Case Studies and Applications of Information Technology (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 175) by Anju Saxena on 4 pages
- The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics (Routledge Companions) by Carmen Llamas in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Codeswitiching Worldwide II (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs) by Rodolfo Jacobson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter in Back Matter
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