Small-Language Fates and Prospects: Lessons of Persistence and Change from Endangered Languages: Collected Essays - Rilegato

Libro 12 di 23: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture

Dorian, Nancy

 
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In Small-Language Fates and Prospects Nancy C. Dorian gathers findings from decades of documenting a Scottish Gaelic dialect in sharp decline, presenting detailed evidence of contraction and loss while also drawing lessons for maintenance and revitalization in other endangered-language settings.

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Nancy C. Dorian, Ph.D. (1965) University of Michigan, was Professor of Linguistics at Bryn Mawr College. Her books include Language Death (1981), Investigating Obsolence (1989) and Investigating Variation (2010). She edited the Small Languages and Small Language Communities section of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language for more than two decades.

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