An introduction to language endangerment. What is it? How and why does it happen? Why should we care?
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Sarah G. Thomason is William J. Gedney Collegiate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan. Her previous publications include Language Contact: An Introduction (2001).
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