Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim.
Title:
Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim.
Author:
Miyaoka, Osahito.
ISBN:
9780191532894
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (549 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- The Background to This Volume -- PART I: Diversity, Endangerment, and Documentation -- 1 Keynote-Mass Language Extinction and Documentation: The Race against Time -- 2 Documenting and/or Preserving Endangered Languages -- 3 Linguistic Fieldwork among Speakers of Endangered Languages -- 4 Language Policy and Language Rights -- 5 Using Written Records to Revitalize North American Languages -- 6 Indigenous Voices and the Linguistics of Language Revitalization -- 7 Pidgins and Creoles in the Pacific -- 8 Linguistic Diversity in Decline: A Functional View -- PART II: Areal Surveys -- The South Pacific Rim -- 9 Languages of Middle America -- 10 Languages of the Pacific Coast of South America -- 11 Fuegian Languages -- 12 Indigenous Languages of Australia -- 13 Languages of New Guinea -- 14 Languages of the Pacific Region: Malayo-Polynesian -- South-East Asia -- 15 Indigenous Languages of Formosa -- 16 Languages of Mainland South-East Asia -- 17 Minority Languages of China -- 18 Japanese Dialects and Ryukyuan -- The Northern Pacific Rim -- 19 Nivkh and Ainu -- 20 Siberia: Tungusic and Palaeosiberian -- 21 Native Languages of Alaska -- 22 Languages of the Northwest Coast -- 23 Languages of California -- 24 Languages of the South-West United States -- The Authors -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index of Place Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Index of Languages and Language Families -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T.
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Abstract:
This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the languages of the Pacific rim, a vast region containing the greatest typological and genetic diversity in the world. As its languages decline and disappear, sometimes without trace, this rich linguistic heritage is rapidly eroding. Distinguished scholars report on the current state of the region's languages. Their analyses range from the regional to the local and focus on languages in a wide variety of social and ecological. settings. Together they make a compelling case for research throughout the region, and show how and where this needs to be done. - ;This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the languages of the Pacific rim, a vast region containing the greatest typological and genetic diversity in the world. It includes the littoral regions of North and South America, Australasia, east and south-east Asia, and Japan, as well as the Pacific itself. As its languages decline and disappear, sometimes without trace, this rich linguistic heritage is rapidly eroding. In The Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim distinguished scholars report on the current state of the region's languages and provides a critical survey of the current state of the region's languages. They show what is currently known and recorded and what remains to be examined and documented. They consider which languages are the most vulnerable to extinction and what steps that can be taken to save them. Their analyses range from the regional to the local and focus on languages in. a wide variety of social and ecological settings. Together they make a compelling case for research throughout the region, and show how and where this needs to be done. -.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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