Small-language fates and prospects : : lessons of persistence and change from endangered languages : collected essays / / by Nancy C. Dorian.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, Volume 6
• VerfasserIn: Dorian, Nancy C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; Volume 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (490 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

In Small-language Fates and Prospects Nancy C. Dorian gathers findings from decades of documenting an endangered Scottish Gaelic dialect, presenting detailed evidence of contraction and loss but also recording a positive role for imperfect speakers. Retention of language skills undervalued by lingui...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Nancy C. Dorian
• Introduction / Nancy C. Dorian
• 1 Grammatical Change in a Dying Dialect (1973) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 2 The Fate of Morphological Complexity in Scottish Gaelic Language Death: Evidence from East Sutherland Gaelic (1978) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 3 Making do with Less: Some Surprises along the Language Death Proficiency Continuum (1986) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 4 Negative Borrowing in an Indigenous Language Shift to the Dominant National Language (2006) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 5 The Problem of the Semi-Speaker in Language Death (1977) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 6 Language Shift in Community and Individual: The Phenomenon of the Laggard Semi-Speaker (1980) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 7 Defining the Speech Community to Include its Working Margins (1982) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 8 Abrupt Transmission Failure in Obsolescing Languages: How Sudden the ‘Tip’ to the Dominant Language in Communities and Families? (1986) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 9 Age and Speaker Skills in Receding Language Communities: How Far do Community Evaluations and Linguists’ Evaluations Agree? (2009) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 10 Linguistic Lag as an Ethnic Marker (1980) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 11 Language Loss and Maintenance in Language Contact Situations (1982) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 12 The Value of Language-Maintenance Efforts which are Unlikely to Succeed (1987) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 13 The Ambiguous Arithmetic of Language Maintenance and Revitalization (2011) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 14 Purism vs. Compromise in Language Revitalization and Language Revival (1994) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 15 Western Language Ideologies and Small-Language Prospects (1998) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 16 Bi- and Multilingualism in Minority and Endangered Languages (2004) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 17 Stylistic Variation in a Language Restricted to Private-Sphere Use (1994) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 18 Telling the Monolinguals from the Bilinguals: Unrealistic Code Choices in Direct Quotations within Scottish Gaelic Narratives (1997) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 19 Celebrations: In Praise of the Particular Voices of Languages at Risk (1999) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 20 Gathering Language Data in Terminal Speech Communities (1986) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 21 Surprises in Sutherland: Linguistic Variability amidst Social Uniformity (2001) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 22 Documentation and Responsibility (2010) / Nancy C. Dorian
• 23 The Private and the Public in Language Documentation and Revitalization (2010) / Nancy C. Dorian
• Author Index / Nancy C. Dorian
• General Index / Nancy C. Dorian.