Publications

Publication details [#39633]

Pensalfini, Rob. 2004. Eulogizing a language: the Ngarnka experience. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 168 : 141–156.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Walter de Gruyter

Annotation

This paper describes some of the challenges related to the study of the Ngarnka language, a language of central northern Australia, during and after the final stages of its death in the late 1990's, and investigates some of the possible reasons for, and influence of, this kind of work.