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1 online resource (xviii, 530 pages) : illustrations. |
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Oxford linguistics
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Oxford linguistics.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Language attrition -- Pacific Area.
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Language attrition. |
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Pacific Area. |
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Language revival -- Pacific Area.
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Language revival. |
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Pacific Area -- Languages.
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Language and languages. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Miyaoka, Osahito, 1936-
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Sakiyama, Osamu, 1937-
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Krauss, Michael E., 1934-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vanishing languages of the Pacific rim. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 (DLC) 2006026788 |
| ISBN |
0191532894 (electronic book) |
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9780191532894 (electronic book) |
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9780199266623 (Cloth) |
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019926662X (Cloth) |
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9781429487108 (electronic book) |
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1429487100 (electronic book) |
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019926662X (Cloth) |
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0199212937 (hardback) |
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9780199212934 (hardback) |
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