New Benjains title: Harrison et al. - Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages

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Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages
Edited by K. David Harrison, David S. Rood and Arienne Dwyer
Swarthmore College / University of Colorado / University of Kansas

Typological Studies in Language 78

2008. vi, 375 pp.
Hardbound 978 90 272 2990 8 / EUR 115.00 / USD 173.00
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This volume represents part of an unprecedented and still growing 
effort to advance, coordinate and disseminate the scientific 
documentation of endangered languages. As the pace of language 
extinction increases, linguists and native communities are 
accelerating their efforts to speak, remember, record, analyze and 
archive as much as possible of our common human heritage that is 
linguistic diversity. The window of opportunity for documentation is 
narrower than the actual lifetime of a language, and is now rapidly 
closing for many languages represented in this volume. The authors of 
these papers unveil newly collected data from previously poorly known 
and endangered languages. They organize highly complex linguistic 
facts - paradigms, affixes, vowel patterns - while pointing out the 
theoretically challenging aspects of these. Beyond this, they reflect 
on the social and human dimensions, discussing particular problems of 
nostalgia and modernity, memory and forgetting, and obsolescence and 
ethics, while viewing language as not merely data on a page but as a 
living creation in the minds and mouths of its speakers.

Table of contents

A world of many voices: Editors' introduction
K. David Harrison, David S. Rood and Arienne Dwyer 112
Sri Lanka Malay revisited: Genesis and classification
Umberto Ansaldo 1342
Working Together: The interface between researchers and the native 
people - The Trumai case
Aurore Monod Becquelin, Emmanuel de Vienne and Raquel Guirardello-Damian 4366
Tense, Aspect and Mood in Awetí verb-paradigms: Analytic and synthetic forms.
Sebastian Drude 67110
Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor.
Arienne Dwyer 111128
Language, ritual and historical reconstruction: Towards a linguistic, 
ethnographical and archaeological account of Upper Xingu Society
Carlos Fausto, Bruna Franchetto and Michael Heckenberger 129158
Endangered Caucasian languages in Georgia: Linguistic parameters of 
language endangerment
Jost Gippert 159194
Contact, attrition and shift in two Chaco languages: The cases of 
Tapiete and Vilela
Lucía A. Golluscio and Hebe González 195242
Tofa language change and terminal generation speakers
K. David Harrison and Gregory D.S. Anderson 243270
Hocank's challenge to morphological theory
Johannes Helmbrecht and Christian Lehmann 271316
A Preliminary study of same-turn self-repair initiation in Wichita 
conversation
Armik Mirzayan 317354
Multimedia analysis in documentation projects: Kinship, 
interrogatives and reciprocals in Akhoe Hai om
Thomas Widlok, Christian Rapold and Gertie Hoymann 355370
Index  371375


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