Endangered languages / edited by Peter K. Austin, Andrew Simpson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Austin, Peter, editor.

Simpson, Andrew, 1962- editor.

Series:

Linguistische Berichte. Sonderheft ; 0935-9249 14.

Linguistische Berichte. Sonderheft ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language obsolescence.

Endangered languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages).

Place of Publication:

Hamburg : Helmut Buske Verlag, [2007]

Summary:

Peter K. Austin / Andrew Simpson: Introduction;Nicholas Evans: Warramurrungunji undone: Australian languages in the 51st Millenium;Knut J. Olawsky: Obvious OVS in Urarina syntax;Larry M. Hyman / Imelda Udoh: Length harmony in Leggbó: a counter-universal?;Nora England: The influence of Mayan-speaking linguists on the state of Mayan linguistics;Pamela Munro: Oblique subjects in Garifuna;Marina Chumakina / Anna Kibort / Greville G. Corbett: Determining a language's feature inventory: person in Archi;Friederike Lüpke: Vanishing voice - the morphologically zero-coded passive of Jalonke;Anju Saxena: The ergative in Kinnauri narratives;John Hajek: Sound systems of the Asia-Pacific: some basic typological observations;Martina Faller: The Cusco Quechua Reportative evidential and rhetorical relations;Emmon Bach: Deixis in Northern Wakashan: recovering lost forms;Roberto Zavala: Inversion and obviation in Mesoamerica

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783875489545

3875489543