A world of many voices: Editors' introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. A world of many voices: Editors' introduction 1
4. Sri Lanka Malay revisited: Genesis and classification 13
5. Working Together: The interface between researchers and the native people - The Trumai case 43
6. Tense, Aspect and Mood in Awetí verb-paradigms: Analytic and synthetic forms. 67
7. Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor. 111
8. Language, ritual and historical reconstruction: Towards a linguistic, ethnographical and archaeological account of Upper Xingu Society 129
9. Endangered Caucasian languages in Georgia: Linguistic parameters of language endangerment 159
10. Contact, attrition and shift in two Chaco languages: The cases of Tapiete and Vilela 195
11. Tofa language change and terminal generation speakers 243
12. Hocank's challenge to morphological theory 271
13. A Preliminary study of same-turn self-repair initiation in Wichita conversation 317
14. Multimedia analysis in documentation projects: Kinship, interrogatives and reciprocals in ǂ Akhoe Hai ǁ om 355
15. Index 371