Presented to you through Paradigm Publishing Services
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Book
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
Language Death and Language Maintenance
Theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches
-
Edited by:
-
In collaboration with:
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2003
About this book
Languages are dying at an alarming rate all over the world. Estimates range from 50% to as much as 90% by the end of the century. This collection of original papers tries to strike a balance between theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches to language death and language maintenance. It provides overviews of language endangerment in Africa, Eurasia, and the Greater Pacific Area. It also presents case studies of endangered languages from various language families. These descriptive case studies not only provide data on the degree of endangerment and the causes of language death, but also provide a general sociolinguistic and typological characterization the language(s) under discussion and the prospects of language maintenance (if any). The volume will be of interest to all those concerned with the ongoing extinction of the world’s linguistic diversity.
Reviews
Mike Cahill on Linguist List 14-824, July 2003:
[...] an excellent collection. More works of this kind are needed if we are to get true grasp of the magnitude and extent of the endangered language issue.
[...] an excellent collection. More works of this kind are needed if we are to get true grasp of the magnitude and extent of the endangered language issue.
Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Prelim pages
i -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Table of contents
v -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Preface
vii -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Introduction: Language death and language maintenance
ix -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The endangered languages issue as a hopeless cause
1 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The language situation and language endangerment in the Greater Pacific area
15 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Language endangerment in Indonesia
49 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Sibe: An endangered language
81 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The gradual disappearance of a Eurasian language family
89 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The endangered Uralic languages
107 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Endangered Turkic languages
143 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Loss of linguistic diversity in Africa
157 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Ongota (Birale), a moribund language of Southwest Ethiopia
171 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
An endangered language
189 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Resian as a minority language
215 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Index of languages
227 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Index of names
237 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Index of subjects
241
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
October 24, 2011
eBook ISBN:
9789027275295
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
244
This book is in the series
eBook ISBN:
9789027275295
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
