Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 530 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford linguistics |
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Oxford linguistics.
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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 |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Subject |
Language attrition -- Pacific Area
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Language revival -- Pacific Area
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
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Language and languages
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Language attrition
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Language revival
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SUBJECT |
Pacific Area -- Languages
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Pacific Area
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Miyaoka, Osahito, 1936-
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Sakiyama, Osamu, 1937-
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Krauss, Michael E., 1934-
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ISBN |
0191532894 |
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9780191532894 |
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9780199266623 |
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019926662X |
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9781429487108 |
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1429487100 |
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9786611145507 |
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6611145508 |
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1281145505 |
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9781281145505 |
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