ISBN:
9789027290205
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (381 p.)
Series Statement:
Typological studies in language 78
Parallel Title:
Print version Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Endangered languages
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Linguistics
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume represents part of an unprecedented and still growing effort to advance, coordinate and disseminate the scientific documentation of endangered languages. As the pace of language extinction increases, linguists and native communities are accelerating their efforts to speak, remember, record, analyze and archive as much as possible of our common human heritage that is linguistic diversity. The window of opportunity for documentation is narrower than the actual lifetime of a language, and is now rapidly closing for many languages represented in this volume. The authors of these papers
Description / Table of Contents:
Table of contents; A world of many voices; Untangling human history; Contested cultures; Morphological complexity; Emergent tone systems; Shamans' chants and linguistic archeology; Assessing endangerment; The floodgates of memory; Moribund yet living; Challenges to linguistic theory; Conversational strategies; Kinship in context; Acknowledgements; Sri Lanka Malay revisited; Foreword; 1. Introduction; 1.1. SLM speech communities; 1.2. The linguistic base of SLM; 2. Revisiting basic assumptions; 2.1. The `Tamil bias'; 2.2. SLM is not a Creole
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3. Introduction to case in Kirinda Java and its adstrates3.1. Accusative; 3.2. Dative; 3.3. Other cases; 3.4. Basic case-alignment in KJ and its adstrates; 3.5. Agglutinative morphology; 3.6. Summary; 4. Conclusions; 4.1. Significance for the genesis of SLM; 4.2. Significance for the classification of SLM varieties; Acknowledgements; References; Working together; 1. Introduction; 2. The Trumai and their past; 2.1. Paradise lost?; 2.2. Which paradise?; 2.3. What to do in this situation?; 2.4. The reification of culture: Elements of explanation
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2.5. ``Culturally preserved'': A new criterion in the Xingu intertribal hierarchy3. Documentation: Bases, objects and means of interaction; 3.1. The figure of the white man; 3.2. Two contrasting positions on the work of documentation; 3.3. Folklorisation; 4. The impact and uses of documentation; 4.1. Possession of knowledge, capacities, and problems of access to documentation; 4.2. Memorization strategies and cultural change: Dealing with a new memory; 4.3. The transmission of knowledge; 5. Conclusion; References; Tense, Aspect and Mood in Awetí verb paradigms; 1. Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
2. Verbs in a Word-and-Paradigm approach2.1. Lexical words and word forms; 2.2. Classification systems; 3. Awetí verb paradigms: The person part; 3.1. Three Awetí verb types; 3.2. Active intransitive verbs and basic person categories; 3.3. Transitive verbs and person hierarchy; 3.4. Stative intransitive verbs; 4. Tense-Aspect-Mood Category Affixes; 4.1. Permissive mood prefixes; 4.2. Aspect suffixes; 4.3. Mood suffixes; 5. Tense-Aspect-Mood auxiliary particles; 5.1. A particle for the negated permissive; 5.2. `Temporal' and `modal' particles: Factuality
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6. The verb form system and system link of Awetí6.1. The functional system; 6.2. The structural system; 6.3. The system link; 7. Elements of Awetí verb paradigms: Examples; 7.1. Synthetic form atupeju11: Problems with traditional glossings; 7.2. Analytical form tut etoka: Analysis of discontinuous occurence; 7.3. Syncretism for pejtup11 (synthetic form of a transitive verb); 7.4. Syncretism for etup tepe (analytical form of a transitive verb); 7.5. Synthetic form ito: No specific marking at all; 7.6. Final remarks; References; Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor; 1. Introduction
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2. Contact environment and Mongolic prosody
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