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The brief existence of Saipan Carolinian
A study of a vanishing language storing valuable linguistic and historical insights on the tongue of its speakers
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S. James Ellis
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Introduction 1
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Section 1
- North-South relations in linguistic science 25
- Indigenous language policies in Brazil 45
- Language rights in danger 61
- Towards language planning for sign languages 87
- A cost-and-benefit approach to language loss 115
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Section 2
- Language documentation 20 years on 147
- The brief existence of Saipan Carolinian 171
- Aikanã and Kwaza 203
- Metaphors of an endangered forest people, the Yanomae (N. Brazil) 231
- Measuring and understanding ethnolinguistic vitality in Papapana 249
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Section 3
- The art of losing 283
- Reacting to language endangerment 313
- Language transmission and use in a bilingual setting in rural Tanzania 335
- Language shift and endangerment in urban and rural East Africa 351
- Redefining priorities, methods and standards in endangered-language lexicography 361
- Jewish language varieties 387
- Index 411
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Introduction 1
-
Section 1
- North-South relations in linguistic science 25
- Indigenous language policies in Brazil 45
- Language rights in danger 61
- Towards language planning for sign languages 87
- A cost-and-benefit approach to language loss 115
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Section 2
- Language documentation 20 years on 147
- The brief existence of Saipan Carolinian 171
- Aikanã and Kwaza 203
- Metaphors of an endangered forest people, the Yanomae (N. Brazil) 231
- Measuring and understanding ethnolinguistic vitality in Papapana 249
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Section 3
- The art of losing 283
- Reacting to language endangerment 313
- Language transmission and use in a bilingual setting in rural Tanzania 335
- Language shift and endangerment in urban and rural East Africa 351
- Redefining priorities, methods and standards in endangered-language lexicography 361
- Jewish language varieties 387
- Index 411