| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 375 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Typological studies in language ; 78 |
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Typological studies in language ; v. 78
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| Contents |
Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; A world of many voices; Sri Lanka Malay revisited; Tense, Aspect and Mood in Awetí verb paradigms; Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor; Language, ritual and historical reconstruction; Contact, attrition and shift in two Chaco languages; Tofa language change and terminal generation speakers1; Hocank's challenge to morphological theory; A preliminary study of same-turn self-repair initiation in Wichita conversation; Multimedia analysis in documentation projects; Index |
| Summary |
This volume represents part of an unprecedented and still growing effort to advance, coordinate and disseminate the scientific documentation of endangered languages. As the pace of language extinction increases, linguists and native communities are accelerating their efforts to speak, remember, record, analyze and archive as much as possible of our common human heritage that is linguistic diversity. The window of opportunity for documentation is narrower than the actual lifetime of a language, and is now rapidly closing for many languages represented in this volume. The authors of these papers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Endangered languages.
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Linguistics.
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Linguistics
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linguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
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Endangered languages
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Linguistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harrison, K. David.
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Rood, David S.
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Dwyer, Arienne M.
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| ISBN |
9789027290205 |
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9027290202 |
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1282105418 |
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9781282105416 |
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9786612105418 |
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6612105410 |
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