[Lingtyp] Language Death

Thu Oct 28 18:42:40 UTC 2021

Dear colleagues

At the risk of being seen to be at least partially blowing my own trumpet,
can I suggest the following additions to Prof Simone's list of sources on
"Language Death" or "Language Endangerment" as standard and reference works
(some of which date from post-2004)?

Abley, Mark. 2005. Spoken Here: Travel Among Threatened Languages. London:
Arrow Books.

Austin, Peter K. 2007. Survival of Languages. In Emily F. Shuckburgh (ed.)
Survival: Darwin College Lectures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Austin, Peter K. (ed.) 2008. 1000 Languages: The Worldwide History of
Living and Lost Tongues. London: Thames and Hudson & Berkeley: University
of California Press.

Austin, Peter K. & Stuart McGill. 2010. Essential readings in endangered
languages. London: Routledge.

Austin, Peter K. & Julia Sallabank. (eds.) 2010. Cambridge Handbook of
Endangered Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Crystal, David. 2000. Language Death. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Evans, Nicholas. 2001. "The Last Speaker is Dead – Long Live the Last
Speaker!". In Paul Newman & Martha Ratliff (eds.) Linguistic Field Work,
250-281. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Fishman, Joshua. 1991. Reversing Language Shift. Clevendon: Multilingual
Matters.

Fishman, Joshua. 2001. Can Threatened Languages be Saved? Reversing
Language Shift, Revisited: A 21st Century Perspective. Clevedon:
Multilingual Matters.

Hale, Kenneth; Krauss, Michael; Watahomigie, Lucille J.; Yamamoto, Akira
Y.; Craig, Colette; Jeanne, LaVerne M. et al. 1992. Endangered Languages.
Language, 68 (1), 1–42.

Harrison, K. David. 2007. When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's
Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge. New York and London: Oxford
University Press

Nettle, Daniel and Romaine, Suzanne. 2000. Vanishing Voices: The Extinction
of the World's Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Thomason, Sarah G. 2015. Endangered Languages: An Introduction. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 at 16:54, Nigel Vincent <nigel.vincent at manchester.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Since Raffaele's excellent bibliography includes one item in Italian, let
> me add an item of my own, in English but about another contribution to the
> topic written in Italian by an Italian linguist sadly not much read or
> cited these days.
> Nigel
>
>
> Professor Nigel Vincent, FBA MAE
> Professor Emeritus of General & Romance Linguistics
> The University of Manchester
>
> Linguistics & English Language
> School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
> The University of Manchester
>
>
>
>
> https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/nigel-vincent(f973a991-8ece-453e-abc5-3ca198c869dc).html
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> *From:* Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of
> Raffaele Simone <rsimone at os.uniroma3.it>
> *Sent:* 28 October 2021 3:50 PM
> *To:* lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
> >
> *Subject:* Re: [Lingtyp] Language Death
>
>
> Dear Sergej,
>
> the following list of titles can be of use:
>
>
>    - Brenzinger, M. (ed.) (1992): *Language Death. Factual and
>    Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa*. Berlin,
>    De Gruyter.
>    - Campbell, L. (1994): Language Death. In R.E. Asher & J.M.Y. Simpson
>    (eds.), *The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics*, Vol. 4,
>    Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1960-1968.
>    - Dal Negro, S. (2004): *The Decay of a Language. The Case of a German
>    Dialect in the Italian Alps*. Bern, Lang.
>    - De Bot, K. (1996): Language loss. In H. Goebl, P.H. Nelde, Z. Starý,
>    W. Wölck (eds.), *Kontaktlinguistik. **Contact Linguistics.
>    Linguistique de contact* (1. Halbband), Berlin, De Gruyter, 579-58,
>    - Denison, N. (1977): Language death or language suicide? *Linguistics*,
>    191, 13-22.
>    - Dorian, N.C. (1977): The problem of the semi-speaker in language
>    death. *Linguistics*, 191, 23-32.
>    - Dorian, N.C. (1981): *Language Death. The Life Cycle of a Scottish
>    Gaelic Dialect*. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.
>    - Dorian, N.C. (1999): The study of language obsolescence: stages,
>    surprises, challenges. *Langues et Linguistique. Languages and
>    Linguistics*, 3, 99-122.
>    - Dorian, N.C. (ed.) (1989): *Investigating Obsolescence. Studies in
>    Language Contraction and Death*. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
>    - Dressler, W.U. (1996): Language death. In R. Singh (ed.), *Towards a
>    Critical Sociolinguistics*, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 195-210.
>    - Dressler, W.U. (2003): Dallo stadio di lingue minacciate allo stadio
>    di lingue moribonde attraverso lo stadio di lingue decadenti: una
>    catastrofe ecolinguistica considerata in una prospettiva costruttivista. In
>    A. Valentini, P. Molinelli, P. Cuzzolin, G. Bernini (a cura di), *Ecologia
>    linguistica*, Roma, Bulzoni, 9-25.
>    - Dressler, W.U. & Wodak-Leodolter, R. (1977): Language preservation
>    and language death in Brittany. *International Journal of the
>    Sociology of Language*, 12, 33-44.
>    - Hagège, C. (2000): *Halte à la mort des langues*. Paris, Odile Jacob.
>    - Myers-Scotton, C. (1998): A way to dusty death: the Matrix Language
>    turnover hypothesis. In L.A. Grenoble & L.J. Whaley (eds.), *Endangered
>    Languages*, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 289-316.
>    - Sasse, H.-J. (1992): Theory of language death. In Brenzinger (ed.),
>    7-30.
>    - Wolfram, W. (2002): Language death and dying. In J.K. Chambers, P.
>    Trudgill, N. Schilling-Estes (eds.), *The Handbook of Language
>    Variation and Change*, Oxford, Blackwell, 764-78.
>
> Best,
>
> R Simone
>
> Emeritus, Roma Tre University, Rome
>
>
> Il 28/10/2021 15:41, Juergen Bohnemeyer ha scritto:
>
> Dear Sergey — I highly recommend ch9 of Thomason 2001, which includes an excellent discussion of the earlier literature, including the work by Dorian, Sasse, and A. Schmidt. — Best — Juergen
>
> Thomason, S. (2001). Language contact: An introduction. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
>
>
> On Oct 28, 2021, at 9:14 AM, Sergey Loesov <sergeloesov at gmail.com> <sergeloesov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Could you please recommend some standard and reference works on the problems of "Language death"?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Sergey
>
>
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