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Small-language fates and prospects : lessons of persistence and change from endangered languages : collected essays
- Title
- Small-language fates and prospects : lessons of persistence and change from endangered languages : collected essays / by Nancy C. Dorian.
- Author
- Dorian, Nancy C.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
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- Description
- xiii, 476 pages; 25 cm
- Series Statement
- Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, 1879-5412 ; volume 6
- Uniform Title
- Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; 6.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Grammatical change in a dying dialect -- The fate of morphological complexity in Scottish Gaelic language death : evidence from East Sutherland Gaelic -- Making do with less : some surprises along the language death proficiency continuum -- Negative borrowing in an indigenous language shift to the dominant national language -- The problem of the semi-speaker in language death -- Language shift in community and individual : the phenomenon of the laggard semi-speaker -- Defining the speech community to include its working margins -- Abrupt transmission failure in obsolescing languages : how sudden the "tip" to the dominant language in communities : how far do community evaluations and linguists' evaluations agree? -- Linguistic lag as an ethnic marker -- Language loss and maintenance in language contact situations -- The value of language-maintenance efforts which are unlikely to succeed -- The ambiguous arithmetic of language maintenance and revitalization -- Purism vs. compromise in language revitalization and language revival -- Western language ideologies and small-language prospects -- Bi- and multilingualism in minority and endangered languages -- Stylistic variation in a language restricted to private-sphere use -- Telling the monolinguals from the bilinguals : unrealistic code choices in direct quotations within Scottish Gaelic narratives -- Celebrations : in praise of the particular voices of languages at risk -- Gathering language data in terminal speech communities -- Surprises in Sutherland : linguistic variability amidst social uniformity -- Documentation and responsibility -- The private and the public in language documentation and revitalization.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-4343
- ISBN
- 9789004230514
- 9004230513
- 9004261931
- 9789004261938
- 9789004261938 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014002474
- 40023905306
- OCLC
- 870147432
- Author
- Dorian, Nancy C.
- Title
- Small-language fates and prospects : lessons of persistence and change from endangered languages : collected essays / by Nancy C. Dorian.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, 1879-5412 ; volume 6Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; 6.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40023905306
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-4343