Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027229902
• ISBN13: 9789027229908
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 375 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.