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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 : Brill, 2014.

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Description

476 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture ; 6

Uniform Title

Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture ; 6.

Subject

• Endangered languages
• Scottish Gaelic language > Dialects > Scotland

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9789004230514 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9789004261938 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014002474

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library