Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Dedication vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction xi
6. Part I. Language Endangerment: Challenges and Responses
7. The world’s languages in crisis 3
8. What can revitalization work teach us about documentation? 21
9. Unanswered questions in language documentation and revitalization 43
10. Training as empowering social action 59
11. How to avoid pitfalls in documenting endangered languages 79
12. Part II. Case Studies in Documentation and Revitalization of Endangered Languages and Languages in Contact
13. Converb and aspect-marking polysemy in Nar 97
14. Grammatical relations in Mixe and Chimariko 119
15. Having a shinshii/shiishii ‘master’ around makes you speak Japanese! 141
16. Internal and external calls to immigrant language promotion 157
17. Code-switching in an Erzya–Russian bilingual variety 175
18. Colonialism, nationalism and language vitality in Azerbaijan 197
19. Revitalizing languages through place-based language curriculum 221
20. Remembering ancestral voices 243
21. Index 271