Language death and language maintenance :: theoretical, practical, and descriptive approaches /

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 prov...

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Körperschaft: Linguistic Bibliography and the Languages of the World
Weitere Verfasser: Janse, Mark, 1959-, Tol, Sijmen
Format: Elektronisch Tagungsbericht E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2003.
Schriftenreihe:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 240.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:"The present collection of papers derives from a symposium "Linguistic Bibliography and the Languages of the World", held on November 2-3, 2000 at the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) ..."--Preface
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvii, 244 pages) : illustrations, maps
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789027275295
9027275297
1283312107
9781283312103
9786613312105
661331210X

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