Language Diversity Endangered / / ed. by Matthias Brenzinger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Adelaar, Willem F. H.,; Blench, Roger,; Bradley, David,; Brenzinger, Matthias,; Connell, Bruce,; Driem, George,; Evans, Nicholas,; Grinevald, Colette,; Kazakevich, Olga,; Kibrik, Aleksandr,; Krauss, Michael,; Moore, Denny,; Owens, Jonathan,; Salminen, Tapani,; Tryon, Darrell,; Wurm, Stephen A.,; Yamamoto, Akira,
• HerausgeberIn: Brenzinger, Matthias,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 181
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (454 p.) :; Numerous tab. 23 maps

This book presents a comprehensive overview of endangered languages with a global coverage. It features such well-known specialists as Michael Krauss, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Denny Moore, Colette Grinevald, Akira Yamamoto, Roger Blench, Bruce Connell, Tapani Salminen, Olga Kazakevich, Aleksandr Kibrik, Jonathan Owens, David Bradley, George van Driem, Nicholas Evans, Stephen A. Wurm, Darrell Tryon and Matthias Brenzinger. The contributions are unique in analysing the present extent and the various kinds of language endangerment by applying shared general indicators for the assessment of language endangerment. Apart from presenting the specific situations of language endangerment at the sub-continental level, the volume discusses major issues that bear universally on language endangerment. The actual study of endangered languages is carefully examined, for example, against the ethics and pragmatics of fieldwork. Practical aspects of community involvement in language documentation are discussed, such as the setting up of local archives and the training of local linguists. Numerous case studies illustrate different language shift environments with specific replacing factors, such as colonial and religious conquests, migrations and governmental language education. The book is of interest to students and scholars of linguistics with particular focus on endangered languages (and their documentation), typology, and sociolinguistics as well as to anthropologists and language activists.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Classification and Terminology for -- Degrees of Language Endangerment -- Chapter 2. Threatened Languages in Hispanic South -- America -- Chapter 3. Endangered Languages of Lowland Tropical -- South America -- Chapter 4. Endangered Languages of Mexico and -- Central America -- Chapter 5. Endangered Languages in USA and -- Canada -- Chapter 6. Language Endangerment in Northern -- Africa -- Chapter 7. Endangered Languages in West -- Africa -- Chapter 8. Endangered Languages in Central -- Africa -- Chapter 9. Language Endangerment in Southern and -- Eastern Africa -- Chapter 10. Endangered Languages in Europe -- Chapter 11. Language Endangerment in the -- CIS -- Chapter 12. Endangered Languages of the Middle -- East -- Chapter 13. Language Endangerment in China and -- Mainland Southeast Asia -- Chapter 14. Endangered Languages of South -- Asia -- Chapter 15. Warramurrungunji Undone: Australian -- Languages in the 51st Millennium -- Chapter 16. Threatened Languages in the Western -- Pacific Area from Taiwan to, and Including, Papua New Guinea -- Chapter 17. The Languages of the Pacific Region: -- the Austronesian Languages of Oceania -- Backmatter