Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages
Editors
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 unveil newly collected data from previously poorly known and endangered languages. They organize highly complex linguistic facts - paradigms, affixes, vowel patterns - while pointing out the theoretically challenging aspects of these. Beyond this, they reflect on the social and human dimensions, discussing particular problems of nostalgia and modernity, memory and forgetting, and obsolescence and ethics, while viewing language as not merely data on a page but as a living creation in the minds and mouths of its speakers.
[Typological Studies in Language, 78] 2008. vi, 375 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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A world of many voices: Editors' introductionK. David Harrison, David S. Rood and Arienne Dwyer | pp. 1–12
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Sri Lanka Malay revisited: Genesis and classificationUmberto Ansaldo | pp. 13–42
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Working Together: The interface between researchers and the native people - The Trumai caseAurore Monod Becquelin, Emmanuel de Vienne and Raquel Guirardello-Damian | pp. 43–66
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Tense, Aspect and Mood in Awetí verb-paradigms: Analytic and synthetic forms.Sebastian Drude | pp. 67–110
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Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor.Arienne Dwyer | pp. 111–128
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Language, ritual and historical reconstruction: Towards a linguistic, ethnographical and archaeological account of Upper Xingu SocietyCarlos Fausto, Bruna Franchetto and Michael Heckenberger | pp. 129–158
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Endangered Caucasian languages in Georgia: Linguistic parameters of language endangermentJost Gippert | pp. 159–194
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Contact, attrition and shift in two Chaco languages: The cases of Tapiete and VilelaLucía A. Golluscio and Hebe González | pp. 195–242
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Tofa language change and terminal generation speakersK. David Harrison and Gregory D.S. Anderson | pp. 243–270
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Hocank's challenge to morphological theoryJohannes Helmbrecht and Christian Lehmann | pp. 271–316
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A Preliminary study of same-turn self-repair initiation in Wichita conversationArmik Mirzayan | pp. 317–354
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Multimedia analysis in documentation projects: Kinship, interrogatives and reciprocals in ǂ Akhoe Hai ǁ omThomas Widlok, Christian J. Rapold and Gertie Hoymann | pp. 355–370
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Index | pp. 371–375
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General