Language death and language maintenance : theoretical, practical, and descriptive approaches / edited by Mark Janse, Sijmen Tol.
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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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2003.
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| Series: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ;
v. 240. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | "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. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 244 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027275295 9027275297 1283312107 9781283312103 9786613312105 661331210X |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |