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OverviewLanguages are dying at an alarming rate all over the world. Estimates range from 50 per cent to as much as 90 per cent 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mark Janse (Linguistic Bibliography, Ghent University, University of Amsterdam) , Sijmen Tol (Linguistic Bibliography) , Vincent Hendriks (Linguistic Bibliography)Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co Volume: 240 Weight: 0.465kg ISBN: 9789027247520ISBN 10: 9027247528 Pages: 244 Publication Date: 13 March 2003 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Preface; 2. Introduction: Language death and language maintenance: Problems and prospects (by Janse, Mark); 3. The endangered languages issue as a hopeless cause (by Newman, Paul); 4. The language situation and language endangerment in the Greater Pacific area (by Wurm, Stephen A.); 5. Language endangerment in Indonesia: The incipient obsolescence and acute death of Teun, Nila and Serua (Central and Southwest Maluku) (by Engelenhoven, Aone van); 6. Sibe: An endangered language (by Stary, Giovanni); 7. The gradual disappearance of a Eurasian language family: The case of Yeniseyan (by Georg, Stefan); 8. The endangered Uralic languages (by Blokland, Rogier); 9. Endangered Turkic languages: The case of Gagauz (by Menz, Astrid); 10. Loss of linguistic diversity in Africa (by Mous, Maarten); 11. Ongota (Birale), a moribund language of Southwest Ethiopia (by Sava, Graziano); 12. An endangered language: The Gurdun language of the Southern Bauchi Area, Nigeria (by Haruna, Andrew); 13. Resian as a minority language (by Steenwijk, Han); 14. Index of languages; 15. Index of names; 16. Index of subjectsReviews[...] an excellent collection. More works of this kind are needed if we are to get true grasp of the magnitude and extent of the endangered language issue. -- Mike Cahill on Linguist List 14-824, July 2003 Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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