edited by peter k austin (4 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 187 pages : 21 cm. Table of Contents Editor's Preface List of Contributors Countering purism: confronting the emergence of new varieties in a training program for community language workers Margaret Florey Language endangerment, language documentation and capacity building: challenges from New Guinea William A. Foley 28 Dictionary making in endangered speech communities Ulrike Mosel Linguistic study by speakers: efforts of an Institute 39 55 59 71 E.Annamalai Capacity building for some endangered languages of Russia: Voices from Tundra and Taiga Tjeerd de Graaf and Hidetoshi Shiraishi Capacity building in an African context Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Language planning in West Africa - who writes the script? Friederike Lüpke 90 The need for capacity building in Mexico: Misión de Chichimecas, a case study 108 Yolanda Lastra Training speakers of indigenous languages of Latin America at a US university 122 Anthony C. Woodbury and Nora C. England Language documentation and archiving, or how to build a better corpus 140 Heidi Johnson Planning multimedia documentation David Nathan Documentation in practice: developing a linked media corpus of South Efate Nicholas Thieberger Reconceiving metadata: language documentation through thick and thin David Nathan and Peter K. Austin.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. 178 pages : 21 cm. Table of Contents (LDD 1) 1-2 Editor's Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 1) Peter K. Austin 3-4 Introduction (LDD 1) Peter K. Austin 6-14 Launch of the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project Lisbet Rausing 15-17 Endangered Languages: what should we do now? David Crystal 18-34 Defining documentary linguistics Anthony C. Woodbury 35-51 Speakers and documentation of endangered languages Colette Grinevald 52-72 Multimedia and documentation of endangered languages Eva A. Csató, David Nathan 73-84 Genre, register and language documentation in literate and preliterate communities William A. Foley 85-98 Documenting Lexicons: Chechen and Ingush Johanna Nichols, Ronald L. Sprouse 99-121 The DOBES model of language documentation Peter Wittenburg 122-139 Documenting languages: a view from the Brazilian Amazon Daniel L. Everett 140-158 The opportunity and challenge of language documentation in India E. Annamalai 159-167 Desperate straits for languages: how to survive Nicholas Ostler 168-178.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 321 pages ; 28 cm Contents: Introduction / Peter Sells -- Good things come in small languages: grammatical loss and innovation in Nzadi / Larry M. Hyman -- Grammatical categories and linguistictheory: elaborateness in grammar / Tania Kuteva -- A theory is only as good as the data: casting a wide net in Kabardian and Ahtna documentation / Ayla B. Applebaum & Andrea L. Berez -- Documenting deixis in Wik-Ngatharr and Wik-Ngathan / Louise Ashmore -- Mapping negation in conceptual space / Oliver Bond -- Narrative structuring (and restructuring) in Totela: a group study of tense-aspect in the field / Thera Marie Crane -- Construct forms of nouns in African languages / Denis Creissels -- Ideophones in unexpected places / Mark Dingemanse -- Minderico: an endangered language in Portugal / Vera Ferreira & Peter Bouda -- Discrete level narrative, terraced music: insights from underdocumented Ivorian languages / Dafydd Gibbon, Firmin Ahoua,Ble Francois Kipre; & Sascha Griffiths -- From text to typology: towards implementing quantitative typology on corpora from endangered languages / Geoffrey Haig & Stefan Schnell -- A note on the typology of head-internal relativization / Ken Hiraiwa -- Orientation or location? A case-study of Jaminjung and Kriol / Dorothea Hoffmann -- The linguistic importance of language isolates: the African case / Jean-Marie Hombert & Gerard Philippson -- Ultrasound imaging and theories of tongue root phenomena in African languages / Fusheini Hudu, Amanda Miller & Douglas Pulleyblank -- Multiple noun class prefixes in Otjiherero / Jekura U. Kavari & Lutz Marten -- Opacity in Bantu: In support of the internal organisation of features / Nancy C. Kula -- Typology of prosodic systems in Low Luga Izhorian varieties / Natalia Kuznetsova -- Modeling a new Guro orthography / Natalia Kuznetsova, Olga Kuznetsova & Valentin Vydrin -- Laz relative clauses in a typological and areal perspective / Rene Lacroix -- Towards a model of maximal accessibility in linguistic documentation work / Conor McDonough Quinn -- Gender and person markers in Cicipu discourse: 'non-topical' and 'topical'; anaphoric agreement / Stuart McGill -- Displaced arguments: S-O-V-X word order in Mande / Tatiana Nikitina -- Nominal tense in Tundra Nenets and Northern Samoyedic / Irina Nikolaeva -- Murrinh-Patha agreement: implications for the relationship between theory and description / Rachel Nordlinger -- Toward a notion of possible verb in Emai / Ronald P. Schaefer & Francis O. Egbokhare -- (Un)classifying Shabo: phylogenetic methods and results / Tyler Schnoebelen -- Do formal models constrain language description? The case of verbal agreementmorphology / Michael F. Thomas -- The Uncunwee (Ghulfan) Documentation Project: linking language documentation to language conservation / Robert S. Williams, Angelika Jakobi & Jade Comfort -- Null arguments and homonymy flight in the development of Creole pronounsystems / Melani Wratil -- Phonology and phonetics of tone in Northern Sotho,a Southern Bantu language / Sabine Zerbian.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 284 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.