Endangered Languages Volumes 1-4

Description:
The field of endangered languages and language documentation research and practice is a growing one with new programmes having been established in Europe, Australia and the US recently, and new initiatives planned for the future. This is one area of the humanities that has attracted the largest grant support in the world from Volkswagen Foundation, NSF-NEH and Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund, amounting to several million pounds in total annually. This has been associated with an outburst in publications, including two recent textbooks by Mouton (Tsunoda, and Gippert Himmelamnann and Mosel), and a new e-journal just launched by University of Hawaii Press. A whole new generation of students and researchers is being trained in the field and they will want to read and refer to this unique collection of articles. There is no existing collection of papers with this range of coverage. Volume I (Language Ecology and Endangered Languages) deals with the topics: Language Ecology and Endangerment; Speakers and Communities of Endangered Languages (including ethical aspects); Endangered Language Situations around the World; What is lost when a language is lost?; Structural aspects of Language Endangerment; and, Language and Identity. Volume II (Documenting Endangered Languages) deals with: Language Documentation Theory; Speakers and Language Documentation; Data and Language Documentation; Data Processing and Management; Multidisciplinarity in Language Documentation; and, Archiving and Language Documentation. Volume III (Maintaining and Supporting Endangered Languages) covers: Language Policy for Endangered Languages; Revitalisation; Language Programmes for Endangered Languages; Information Technology and Endangered Languages; and, Advocacy and Support for Endangered Languages. Volume IV (The Future of Endangered Languages) discusses: Language and Development; Community-based Training and Capacity Development; Researcher Training and Capacity Development; and, New Roles for Endangered Languages.

Table of Contents:
VOLUME I: BEGINNINGS Part 1: Language Obsolescence and Death 1. Morris Swadesh, 'Sociologic Notes on Obsolescent Languages', International Journal of American Linguistics, 1948, 14, 226--35. 2. Joshua Fishman, 'Language Maintenance and Language Shift as a Field of Inquiry', Linguistics, 1964, 9, 32--70. 3. Joshua Fishman, 'Who Speaks What Language to Whom and When?', La Linguistique, 1965, 2, 67--88. 4. Nancy C. Dorian, 'The Problem of the Semi-Speaker in Language Death', International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1977, 12, 23--32. 5. Norman Denison, 'Language Death or Language Suicide?', International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1977, 12, 13--22. 6. Wolfgang Dressler and Ruth Wodak-Leodolter, 'Language Preservation and Language Death in Brittany', International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1977, 12, 33--44. 7. Hans-Jurgen Sasse, 'Theory of Language Death', in Matthias Brenzinger (ed.), Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa (Mouton de Gruyter, 1992), pp. 7--30. 8. Salikoko S. Mufwene, 'Language Birth and Death', Annual Review of Anthropology, 2004, 33, 201--22. Part 2: Structural Changes 9. Nancy C. Dorian, 'Grammatical Change in a Dying Dialect', Language, 1973, 49, 2, 413--38. 10. Jane Hill and Kenneth Hill, 'Language Death and Relexification in Tlaxcalan Nahuatl', Linguistics, 1977, 12, 55--67. 11. Jane H. Hill, 'Language Death in Uto-Aztecan', International Journal of American Linguistics, 1983, 49, 3, 258--76. 12. Annette Schmidt, 'The Fate of Ergativity in Dying Dyirbal', Language, 1985, 61, 2, 378--96. 13. Peter K. Austin, 'Structural Change in Language Obsolescence: Some Eastern Australian Examples', Australian Journal of Linguistics, 1986, 6, 2, 201--30. 14. Lyle Campbell and Martha C. Muntzell, 'The Structural Consequences of Language Death', in Nancy C. Dorian (ed.), Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death (Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 181--96. 15. Robert E. Moore, 'Lexicalization Versus Lexical Loss in Wasco-Wishram Language Obsolescence', International Journal of American Linguistics, 1988, 54, 4, 453--68. 16. Susan Gal, 'Lexical Innovation and Loss: The Use and Value of Restricted Hungarian', in Nancy C. Dorian (ed.), Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death (Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 313--31. Part 3: Implications of Language Loss 17. Ken Hale et al., 'Endangered Languages', Language, 1992, 68, 1, 1--42. 18. Peter Ladefoged, 'Another View of Endangered Languages', Language, 1992, 68, 4, 809--11. 19. Nancy C. Dorian, 'A Response to Ladefoged's Other View of Endangered Languages', Language, 1993, 69, 3, 575--9. 20. Ken Hale, 'Some Observations on the Contributions of Local Languages to Linguistic Science', Lingua, 1997, 100, 71--89. 21. Marianne Mithun, 'The Significance of Diversity in Language Endangerment and Preservation', in Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.), Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 163--91. 22. Anthony C. Woodbury, 'Documenting Rhetorical, Aesthetic, and Expressive Loss in Language Shift, in Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.), Endangered Languages: Current Issues and Future Prospects (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 234--58. 23. Kenan Malik, 'Let Them Die', Prospect, 2000, 57. 24. Luisa Maffi, 'Linguistic, Cultural, and Biological Diversity', Annual Review of Anthropology, 2005, 34, 599--617. 25. Paul B. Garrett, 'Contact Languages as 'Endangered' Languages: What is There to Lose?', Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2006, 21, 1, 175--90. Volume II: Language Documentation Part 1: Defining Language Documentation 26. Joel Sherzer, 'A Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture', American Anthropologist, 1987, 89, 2, 295--309. 27. Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, 'Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics', in Osamu Sakiyama and Fubito Endo (eds.), Lectures on Endangered Languages, 2002, 5, 37--83. 28. Steven Bird and Gary Simons, 'Seven Dimensions of Portability for Language Documentation and Description', Language, 2003, 79, 3, 557--82. Part 2: Data in Language Documentation 29. Heidi Johnson, 'Language Documentation and Archiving, or How to Build a Better Corpus', in Peter K. Austin (ed.), Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 2 (Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, 2004), pp. 140--53. 30. Christian Lehmann, 'Data in Linguistics', Linguistic Review, 2004, 21, 3--4, 175--210. 31. David Nathan and Peter K. Austin, 'Reconceiving Metadata: Language Documentation through Thick and Thin', in Peter K. Austin (ed.), Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 2 (Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, 2004), pp. 179--87. Part 3: Documentation Methods 32. William A. Foley, 'Genre, Register, and Language Documentation in Literate and Preliterate Communities', in Peter K. Austin (ed.), Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 1 (Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, 2003), pp. 85--98. 33. Ulrike Mosel, 'Dictionary-Making in Endangered Speech Communities', in Peter K. Austin (ed.), Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 2 (Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, 2004), pp. 39--54. 34. Linda Barwick, 'A Musicologist's Wish List: Some Issues, Practices and Practicalities in Musical Aspects of Language Documentation', in Peter K. Austin (ed.), Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 3 (Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, 2005), pp. 53--62. 35. Nicholas Thieberger and Simon Musgrave, 'Documentary Linguistics and Ethical Issues', in Peter K. Austin (ed.), Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 4 (Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, 2006), pp. 26--37. 36. Nick Evans and Hans-Juergen Sasse, 'Searching for Meaning in the Library of Babel: Field Semantics and the Problems of Digital Archiving', in Peter K. Austin (ed.), Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 4 (Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, 2006), pp. 58--99. 37. Marianne Mithun, 'What is a Language? Documentation for Diverse and Evolving Audiences', Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, 2007, 60, 1, 42--55. 38. Friederike Luepke, 'Data Collection Methods for Field-Based Language Documentation', in Peter K. Austin (ed.), Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 6 (Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, 2009), pp. 53--100. 39. Lise M. Dobrin, Peter K. Austin, and David Nathan, 'Dying to be Counted: The Commodification of Endangered Languages in Documentary Linguistics, in Peter K. Austin (ed.), Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 6 (Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, 2009), pp. 37--52. Volume III: Language Planning and Case Studies in Revitalization Part 1: Language Planning Models 40. Joshua A. Fishman, 'What is Reversing Language Shift (RLS) and How Can it Succeed?', Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1990, 11, 1--2, 5--36. 41. Suzanne Romaine, 'Planning for the Survival of Linguistic Diversity', Language Policy, 2006, 5, 4, 441--73. 42. Einar Haugen, 'The Ecology of Language', The Linguistic Reporter, 1971, 25, 19--26. 43. Harald Haarmann, 'Language Planning in the Light of a General Theory of Language: A Methodological Framework', International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1990, 86, 103--26. 44. John Edwards, 'Sociopolitical Aspects of Language Maintenance and Loss: Towards a Typology of Minority Language Situations', in Willem Fase, Koen Jaspaert, and Sjaak Kroon (eds.), Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages (John Benjamins), pp. 37--54. 45. Peter Muhlhausler, 'Language Planning and Language Ecology', Current Issues in Language Planning, 2000, 1, 3, 306--67. 46. Abram de Swaan, 'A Political Sociology of the World Language System', Language Problems and Language Planning, 1998, 22, 1, 63--75 and 22, 2, 109--28. Part 2: Case Studies in