Language Death and Language Maintenance
Theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches
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Languages are dying at an alarming rate all over the world. Estimates range from 50% to as much as 90% by the end of the century. This collection of original papers tries to strike a balance between theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches to language death and language maintenance. It provides overviews of language endangerment in Africa, Eurasia, and the Greater Pacific Area. It also presents case studies of endangered languages from various language families. These descriptive case studies not only provide data on the degree of endangerment and the causes of language death, but also provide a general sociolinguistic and typological characterization the language(s) under discussion and the prospects of language maintenance (if any). The volume will be of interest to all those concerned with the ongoing extinction of the world’s linguistic diversity.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 240] 2003. xviii, 244 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. vii
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Introduction: Language death and language maintenance: Problems and prospectsMark Janse | pp. ix–xvii
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The endangered languages issue as a hopeless causePaul Newman | pp. 1–13
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The language situation and language endangerment in the Greater Pacific areaStephen A. Wurm | pp. 15–47
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Language endangerment in Indonesia: The incipient obsolescence and acute death of Teun, Nila and Serua (Central and Southwest Maluku)Aone van Engelenhoven | pp. 49–80
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Sibe: An endangered languageGiovanni Stary | pp. 81–88
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The gradual disappearance of a Eurasian language family: The case of YeniseyanStefan Georg | pp. 89–106
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The endangered Uralic languagesRogier Blokland and Cornelius Hasselblatt | pp. 107–141
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Endangered Turkic languages: The case of GagauzAstrid Menz | pp. 143–155
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Loss of linguistic diversity in AfricaMaarten Mous | pp. 157–170
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Ongota (Birale), a moribund language of Southwest EthiopiaGraziano Savà | pp. 171–187
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An endangered language: The Gùrdùn language of the Southern Bauchi Area, NigeriaAndrew Haruna | pp. 189–213
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Resian as a minority languageHan Steenwijk | pp. 215–226
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Index of languages | pp. 227–236
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Index of names | pp. 237–240
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Index of subjects | pp. 241–244
“[...] an excellent collection. More works of this kind are needed if we are to get true grasp of the magnitude and extent of the endangered language issue.”
Mike Cahill on Linguist List 14-824, July 2003
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General