This book offers a systematic acoustic phonetic analysis of both language and dialect death in the region of Béarn, southwestern France. Focusing on Béarnais, a localised dialect of Gascon which is under pressure from French, the author explores the...Loe edasi...
A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them. If something is important, we write it down. Yet 85 of the worlds writing systems are on the verg...Loe edasi...
A gripping and moving text which explores the wealth of human language diversity, how deeply it matters, and how we can best turn the tide of language endangerment In the new, thoroughly revised second edition of Words of Wonder: End...Loe edasi...
Tayap is a small, previously undocumented Papuan language, spoken in a single village called Gapun, in the lower Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The language is an isolate, unrelated to any other in the area. Furthermore, Tayap is dying. F...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027208637)
While research on language change has formulated robust empirical generalisations about processes and motivations underlying the emergence and spread of linguistic elements, their decline and loss is less well understood. So far a systematic investi...Loe edasi...
Creating an orthography is often seen as a key component of language revitalisation. Encoding an endangered variety can enhance its status and prestige. In speech communities that are fragmented dialectally or geographically, a common writing system...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1991. The transplantation of thousands of Indian workers to South Africa under indenture between 1860 and 1911 was a political act with far-reaching consequences for their linguistic traditions. In this book, the history of...Loe edasi...
Around the globe, a large body of linguists are collaborating with members of indigenous communities to keep endangered languages alive. This volume discusses current efforts to record, collect and archive these languages in traditional and new media...Loe edasi...
Through a combination of ethnographic research and quantitative surveys, this book presents an in-depth study of revitalisation efforts for indigenous languages in three small islands round the British Isles. It identifies and confronts key issues co...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Nov-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107041134)
Explores how and why languages become endangered, including a comprehensive new theoretical framework and a wide range of examples from around the world. The book will be welcomed by students and scholars of anthropology, linguistics and related disc...Loe edasi...
Up to ninety percent of humanitys traditional languages and cultures are at risk and may disappear this century. While language endangerment has not achieved the publicity surrounding environmental change and biodiversity loss, it is just as serious...Loe edasi...
This book explores Indigenous, tribal and minority (ITM) language education in oral and written communication and in the use of new technologies and online resources for pedagogical purposes. It brings together examples of ITM language educatio...Loe edasi...
This book discusses how new technologies have the potential to revolutionise the documentation, analysis and revitalisation of endangered languages for the linguist and indigenous community alike. It addresses the challenges that come with these new...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9781501517570)
Tayap is a small, previously undocumented Papuan language, spoken in a single village called Gapun, in the lower Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The language is an isolate, unrelated to any other in the area. Furthermore, Tayap is dying. F...Loe edasi...
A collaborative work written by academics working in the field of language endangerment and members of indigenous communities acting on the frontline of language support and maintenance, this volume offers a unique perspective on how the development...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1991. The transplantation of thousands of Indian workers to South Africa under indenture between 1860 and 1911 was a political act with far-reaching consequences for their linguistic traditions. In this book, the history of...Loe edasi...
Józef Grabarek, Hanna Biaduń-Grabarek, Sylwia Firyn
Sari: Schriften Zur Diachronen Und Synchronen Linguistik
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jan-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631763896)
Infolge der Bekämpfung der Mundart und der Germanismen in der polnischen Alltagssprache nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg kamen viele Germanismen aus dem Gebrauch. Dieses Buch bildet einen Versuch, den Schwund der Germanismen in der Alltagssprache in drei......Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Sep-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190256340)
Relatively little is known about Africas endangered languages. Unlike indigenous languages in Australia, North Asia, and the Americas, which are predominantly threatened by colonizers, African languages are threatened most immediately by other local...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Aug-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107148352)
Creating an orthography is often seen as a key component of language revitalisation. Encoding an endangered variety can enhance its status and prestige. In speech communities that are fragmented dialectally or geographically, a common writing system...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Aug-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631729502)
Based on four historical corpora, the book is a comprehensive study of the demise of five preterite-present verbs in English. It offers a detailed description of their distribution in Old and Middle English. The subsequent comparison of the forms...Loe edasi...
