Language Documentation: Practice and values
Edited by Lenore A. Grenoble and N. Louanna Furbee
[Not in series, 158] 2010. xviii, 340 pp.
N. Louanna Furbee
List of John Benjamins publications for which N. Louanna Furbee plays a role.
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Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Language documentation | Theoretical linguistics
2010 Saving languages, saving lives: Tojolabal (Mayan) language revival within a health research NGO Language Documentation: Practice and values, Grenoble, Lenore A. and N. Louanna Furbee (eds.), pp. 221–230 | Article
Most documentation projects for endangered languages arise from the concerns and subsequent collaborations of language experts and of language inheritors. Both groups have vital interests. Linguistic experts view language death as loss of a record of human creativity and adaptation, study of which… read more
2010 Language documentation: Theory and practice Language Documentation: Practice and values, Grenoble, Lenore A. and N. Louanna Furbee (eds.), pp. 3–24 | Article
Linguistic theories direct scientific inquiry. They propose testable inventories of universal categories, properties, relations, and interactions that may constitute a language; for a particular language, they define sub-inventories of these that are legitimate expressions of the general design. To… read more
2010 Preface Language Documentation: Practice and values, Grenoble, Lenore A. and N. Louanna Furbee (eds.), pp. xiii–xviii | Preface
1992 Tojolabal (Mayan) Kinterms and the Theory of Markedness or a Near Triumph of the Feminie Gender The Joy of Grammar: A festschrift in honor of James D. McCawley, Brentari, Diane, Gary N. Larson and Lynn A. MacLeod (eds.), pp. 65–72 | Article