基本説明
Leading North American, Japanese, and Australian researchers have combined to produce the most comprehensive descriptive survey of the languages spoken in the vast region extending from Siberia to Tasmania in the West and from Alaska to Argentina in the East.
Full Description
This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the languages of the Pacific rim, a vast region containing the greatest typological and genetic diversity in the world. It includes the littoral regions of North and South America, Australasia, east and south-east Asia, and Japan, as well as the Pacific itself. As its languages decline and disappear, sometimes without trace, this rich linguistic heritage is rapidly eroding.
In The Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim distinguished scholars report on the current state of the region's languages and provides a critical survey of the current state of the region's languages. They show what is currently known and recorded and what remains to be examined and documented. They consider which languages are the most vulnerable to extinction and what steps that can be taken to save them. Their analyses range from the regional to the local and focus on languages in a wide variety of social and ecological settings.
Together they make a compelling case for research throughout the region, and show how and where this needs to be done.
Contents
PART I ; 1. Mass Language Extinction, and Documentation: The Race Against Time ; 2. Documenting and/or Preserving Endangered Languages ; 3. Linguistic Fieldwork Among Speakers of Endangered Languages ; 4. Language Policy and Language Rights ; 5. Using Written Records to Revitalize North American Languages ; 6. Indigenous Voices and the Linguistics of Language Revitalization ; 7. Pidgins and Creoles in the ; 8. Linguistic Diversity in Decline: A Functional View ; PART II ; SOUTH PACIFIC (RIM) ; 9. Languages of Middle America ; 10. Languages of the Pacific Coast of South America ; 11. Fuegian Languages ; 12. Indigenous Languages of Australia ; 13. Languages of New Guinea ; 14. Languages of the Pacific Region: Malayo-Polynesian ; SOUTHEAST ASIA ; 15. Indigenous Languages of Formosa ; 16. Languages of Mainland South-East Asia ; 17. Minority Languages of China ; 18. Japanese Dialects and Ryukyuan ; NORTHERN PACIFIC RIM ; 19. Nivkh and Ainu ; 20. Siberia: Tungusic and Paleosiberian ; 21. Native Languages of Alaska ; 22. Languages of the Northwest Coast ; 23. Languages of California ; 24. Languages of the South-West United States
