Endangered Languages (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521591027)

The issue of language loss is currently the focus of much linguistic research. This edited volume brings together work by theoretical linguists, field linguists and nonlinguist members of minority communities to provide an integrated view of how language is lost, from sociological and economic as well as from linguistic perspectives. It maps out some of the strategies applied by native communities and professional linguists in the face of language endangerment. Several authors address the understudied issue of what (beyond a linguistic system) is lost when a language becomes obsolescent.

Author: Lenore A. Grenoble
ISBN-10: 0521591023
ISBN-13: 9780521591027
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/13/1998
Pages: 380
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d