nam a22 c 4500 tsl.78/478007363 nljbp 241011025905.4 cr ||||||||||| 131217s2008 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2008014319 9789027290205 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P40.5.E53 306.44 22 CFF bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages Edited by K. David Harrison, David S. Rood and Arienne Dwyer Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008 ©2008 1 online resource (vi, 375 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Typological Studies in Language 0167-7373 78 Includes bibliographical references and index. Sri Lanka Malay revisited: Genesis and classification / Umberto Ansaldo -- Working Together: The interface between researchers and the native people - The Trumai case / Aurore Monod Becquelin, Emmanuel de Vienne and Raquel Guirardello-Damian -- Tense, Aspect and Mood in Awetí verb-paradigms: Analytic and synthetic forms. / Sebastian Drude -- Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor. / Arienne Dwyer -- Language, ritual and historical reconstruction: Towards a linguistic, ethnographical and archaeological account of Upper Xingu Society / Carlos Fausto, Bruna Franchetto and Michael Heckenberger -- Endangered Caucasian languages in Georgia: Linguistic parameters of language endangerment / Jost Gippert -- Contact, attrition and shift in two Chaco languages: The cases of Tapiete and Vilela / Lucía A. Golluscio and Hebe González -- Tofa language change and terminal generation speakers / K. David Harrison and Gregory D.S. Anderson -- Hocank's challenge to morphological theory / Johannes Helmbrecht and Christian Lehmann -- A Preliminary study of same-turn self-repair initiation in Wichita conversation / Armik Mirzayan -- Multimedia analysis in documentation projects: Kinship, interrogatives and reciprocals in ǂ Akhoe Hai ǁ om / Thomas Widlok, Christian J. Rapold and Gertie Hoymann 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. Provided by publisher. Theoretical linguistics Typology Harrison, K. David editor Rood, David S. editor Dwyer, Arienne editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008 9789027229908 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.78 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027290205