<div dir="ltr"><div>Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages: Harrison, Rood, Dwyer (Eds)<br><br><br>Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages <br>Series: Typological Studies in Language 78 <br>Published: 2008 <br>Publisher: John Benjamins<br>
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<br>Editor: K. David Harrison <br>Editor: David S. Rood <br>Editor: Arienne Dwyer <br>Electronic: ISBN: 9789027290205 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 115.00<br>Electronic: ISBN: 9789027290205 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 173.00<br>Hardback: ISBN: 9789027229908 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 115.00<br>
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027229908 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 173.00<br>Abstract:<br><br>This volume represents part of an unprecedented and still growing effort to <br>advance, coordinate and disseminate the scientific documentation of <br>
endangered languages. As the pace of language extinction increases, <br>linguists and native communities are accelerating their efforts to speak, <br>remember, record, analyze and archive as much as possible of our common <br>
human heritage that is linguistic diversity. The window of opportunity for <br>documentation is narrower than the actual lifetime of a language, and is <br>now rapidly closing for many languages represented in this volume. The <br>
authors of these papers unveil newly collected data from previously poorly <br>known and endangered languages. They organize highly complex linguistic <br>facts - paradigms, affixes, vowel patterns - while pointing out the <br>
theoretically challenging aspects of these. Beyond this, they reflect on <br>the social and human dimensions, discussing particular problems of <br>nostalgia and modernity, memory and forgetting, and obsolescence and <br>
ethics, while viewing language as not merely data on a page but as a living <br>creation in the minds and mouths of its speakers. </div>
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