The vanishing languages of the Pacific rim / edited by Osahito Miyaoka, Osamu Sakiyama and Michael E. Krauss.
2007
P381.P3 V36 2007eb
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Title
The vanishing languages of the Pacific rim / edited by Osahito Miyaoka, Osamu Sakiyama and Michael E. Krauss.
ISBN
0191532894 (electronic bk.)
9780191532894 (electronic bk.)
9780199266623 (Cloth)
019926662X (Cloth)
9781429487108 (electronic bk.)
1429487100 (electronic bk.)
9786611145507
6611145508
1281145505
9781281145505
019926662X (Cloth)
0199212937 (hbk.)
9780199212934 (hbk.)
9780191532894 (electronic bk.)
9780199266623 (Cloth)
019926662X (Cloth)
9781429487108 (electronic bk.)
1429487100 (electronic bk.)
9786611145507
6611145508
1281145505
9781281145505
019926662X (Cloth)
0199212937 (hbk.)
9780199212934 (hbk.)
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 530 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
9786611145507
Call Number
P381.P3 V36 2007eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)252684427
Summary
In this work, the editors present a survey of the languages of the Pacific rim, a vast region containing the greatest typological and genetic diversity in the world. The analyses range from the regional to the local and focus on languages in a wide variety of social and ecological settings.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note
Mass language extinction and documentation : the race against time / Michael E. Krauss
Documenting and/or preserving endangered languages / Bernard Comrie
Linguistic fieldwork among speakers of endangered languages / Colette Grinevald
Language policy and language rights / David Bradley
Using written records to revitalize North American languages / Toshihide Nakayama
Indigenous voices and the linguistics of language revitalization / Marcellino Berardo and Akira Y. Yamamoto
Pidgins and Creoles in the Pacific / Sabine Ehrhart and Peter Mühlhäusler
Linguistic diversity in decline : a functional view / Osahito Miyaoka
Languages of Middle America / Yoshiho Yasugi
Languages of the Pacific Coast of South America / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Fuegian languages / Oscar E. Aguilera
Indigenous languages of Australia / Michael Walsh
Languages of New Guinea / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Tonya N. Stebbins
Languages of the Pacific region : Malayo-Polynesian / Osamu Sakiyama
Indigenous languages of Formosa / Naomi Tsukida and Shigeru Tsuchida
Languages of mainland South-East Asia / David Bradley
Minority languages of China / Dory Poa and Randy J. LaPolla
Japanese dialects and Ryukyuan / Shinji Sanada and Yukio Uemura
Nivkh and Ainu / Hiroshi Nakagawa and Osami Okuda
Siberia : Tungusic and Palaeosiberian / Toshiro Tsumagari, Megumi Kurebito, and Fubito Endo
Native languages of Alaska / Michael E. Krauss
Languages of the Northwest coast / Honoré Watanabe and Fumiko Sasama
Languages of California / Leanne Hinton
Languages of the South-West United States / Kumiko Ichihashi-Nakayama, Yukihiro Yumitani, and Akira Y. Yamamoto.
Documenting and/or preserving endangered languages / Bernard Comrie
Linguistic fieldwork among speakers of endangered languages / Colette Grinevald
Language policy and language rights / David Bradley
Using written records to revitalize North American languages / Toshihide Nakayama
Indigenous voices and the linguistics of language revitalization / Marcellino Berardo and Akira Y. Yamamoto
Pidgins and Creoles in the Pacific / Sabine Ehrhart and Peter Mühlhäusler
Linguistic diversity in decline : a functional view / Osahito Miyaoka
Languages of Middle America / Yoshiho Yasugi
Languages of the Pacific Coast of South America / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Fuegian languages / Oscar E. Aguilera
Indigenous languages of Australia / Michael Walsh
Languages of New Guinea / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Tonya N. Stebbins
Languages of the Pacific region : Malayo-Polynesian / Osamu Sakiyama
Indigenous languages of Formosa / Naomi Tsukida and Shigeru Tsuchida
Languages of mainland South-East Asia / David Bradley
Minority languages of China / Dory Poa and Randy J. LaPolla
Japanese dialects and Ryukyuan / Shinji Sanada and Yukio Uemura
Nivkh and Ainu / Hiroshi Nakagawa and Osami Okuda
Siberia : Tungusic and Palaeosiberian / Toshiro Tsumagari, Megumi Kurebito, and Fubito Endo
Native languages of Alaska / Michael E. Krauss
Languages of the Northwest coast / Honoré Watanabe and Fumiko Sasama
Languages of California / Leanne Hinton
Languages of the South-West United States / Kumiko Ichihashi-Nakayama, Yukihiro Yumitani, and Akira Y. Yamamoto.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. (http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212)
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Series
Oxford linguistics.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Vanishing languages of the Pacific rim. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
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