The vanishing languages of the Pacific rim

The vanishing languages of the Pacific rim /

In this work, the editors present a survey of the languages of the Pacific rim, a vast region containing the greatest typological and genetic diversity in the world. The analyses range from the regional to the local and focus on languages in a wide variety of social and ecological settings.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Miyaoka, Osahito, 1936-, Sakiyama, Osamu, 1937-, Krauss, Michael E., 1934-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
Series:Oxford linguistics.
Subjects:
Language attrition > Pacific Area.
Language revival > Pacific Area.
Pacific Area > Languages.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Mass language extinction and documentation : the race against time / Michael E. Krauss
  • Documenting and/or preserving endangered languages / Bernard Comrie
  • Linguistic fieldwork among speakers of endangered languages / Colette Grinevald
  • Language policy and language rights / David Bradley
  • Using written records to revitalize North American languages / Toshihide Nakayama
  • Indigenous voices and the linguistics of language revitalization / Marcellino Berardo and Akira Y. Yamamoto
  • Pidgins and Creoles in the Pacific / Sabine Ehrhart and Peter Mühlhäusler
  • Linguistic diversity in decline : a functional view / Osahito Miyaoka
  • Languages of Middle America / Yoshiho Yasugi
  • Languages of the Pacific Coast of South America / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
  • Fuegian languages / Oscar E. Aguilera
  • Indigenous languages of Australia / Michael Walsh
  • Languages of New Guinea / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Tonya N. Stebbins
  • Languages of the Pacific region : Malayo-Polynesian / Osamu Sakiyama
  • Indigenous languages of Formosa / Naomi Tsukida and Shigeru Tsuchida
  • Languages of mainland South-East Asia / David Bradley
  • Minority languages of China / Dory Poa and Randy J. LaPolla
  • Japanese dialects and Ryukyuan / Shinji Sanada and Yukio Uemura
  • Nivkh and Ainu / Hiroshi Nakagawa and Osami Okuda
  • Siberia : Tungusic and Palaeosiberian / Toshiro Tsumagari, Megumi Kurebito, and Fubito Endo
  • Native languages of Alaska / Michael E. Krauss
  • Languages of the Northwest coast / Honoré Watanabe and Fumiko Sasama
  • Languages of California / Leanne Hinton
  • Languages of the South-West United States / Kumiko Ichihashi-Nakayama, Yukihiro Yumitani, and Akira Y. Yamamoto.

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