A collection of articles on endangered languages. It features four volumes and deals with various topics including: Language Ecology and Endangerment; Speakers and Communities of Endangered Languages; Endangered Language Situations around the World; What is lost when a language is lost?; and, Structural aspects of Language Endangerment.
A collection of articles on endangered languages. It features four volumes and deals with various topics including: Language Ecology and Endangerment;...
This volume explores various problems in the syntax of Austronesian languages, which are found primarily in Malaysia and the Polynesian islands. Using the framework of constraint-based theories of syntax, contributors discuss the nature of these voice systems, the function of their verbal morphology, valence, verbal diathesis and transitivity in such languages, and the nature of their lexical categories. Each analysis is presented within the frameworks of lexical-functional grammar and head-driven phrase structure grammar.
This volume explores various problems in the syntax of Austronesian languages, which are found primarily in Malaysia and the Polynesian islands. Using...
Over the few past centuries, and the last 65 years in particular, there has been a tremendous reduction in global linguistic diversity, as people abandon minority language varieties and switch to larger and what they perceive to be more economically, socially and politically powerful regional or national languages. In addition, governments have been promoting standardised official languages for use in schooling, media and bureaucracy, often under a rubric of linguistic unity supporting national unity. The last two decades have seen a significant increase in interest in minority languages and...
Over the few past centuries, and the last 65 years in particular, there has been a tremendous reduction in global linguistic diversity, as people aban...
