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Responses to Language Endangerment: In honor of Mickey Noonan. New directions in language documentation and language revitalizationEdited by Elena Mihas, Bernard Perley, Gabriel Rei-Doval and Kathleen Wheatley
[Studies in Language Companion Series 142] 2013
► pp. 43–58
Unanswered questions in language documentation and revitalization
New directions for research and action
Lenore A. Grenoble | The University of Chicago
The last twenty years have witnessed an explosion of research on issues of language endangerment, with the emergence of documentary linguistics and the growth of language revitalization programs, resulting in changes in methodologies and in subfields within linguistics. The present article assesses this work in terms of its impact, focusing on documentation corpora, their contents, and how data are collected, archived, and used. The push to document the “last” fluent speakers has resulted in gaps in our current research, such as a general lack of documentation of variation, few studies of the kinds of change that take place during language shift and attrition, and few studies of the newer forms of language which emerge as the result of revitalization.
Published online: 28 November 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.142.03gre
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.142.03gre
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