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

----- 小语种的命运与前景

ISBN: 9789004230514 出版年：2014 页码：490 Nancy Dorian Brill

Foreword Sources Introduction part 1 Language Change in an Obsolescent Language 1 Grammatical Change in a Dying Dialect (1973) 2 The Fate of Morphological Complexity in Scottish Gaelic Language Death: Evidence from East Sutherland Gaelic (1978) 3 Making do with Less: Some Surprises along the Language Death Proficiency Continuum (1986) 4 Negative Borrowing in an Indigenous Language Shift to the Dominant National Language (2006) part 2 Speaker Skills and the Speech Community in a Receding Language Context 5 The Problem of the Semi-Speaker in Language Death (1977) 6 Language Shift in Community and Individual: The Phenomenon of the Laggard Semi-Speaker (1980) 7 Defining the Speech Community to Include its Working Margins (1982) 8 Abrupt Transmission Failure in Obsolescing Languages: How Sudden the 'Tip' to the Dominant Language in Communities and Families? (1986) 9 Age and Speaker Skills in Receding Language Communities: How Far do Community Evaluations and Linguists' Evaluations Agree? (2009) 10 Linguistic Lag as an Ethnic Marker (1980) part 3 Language Shift and Language Maintenance 11 Language Loss and Maintenance in Language Contact Situations (1982) 12 The Value of Language-Maintenance Efforts which are Unlikely to Succeed (1987) 13 The Ambiguous Arithmetic of Language Maintenance and Revitalization (2011) 14 Purism vs. Compromise in Language Revitalization and Language Revival (1994) 15 Western Language Ideologies and Small-Language Prospects (1998) 16 Bi- and Multilingualism in Minority and Endangered Languages (2004) part 4 Language Use 17 Stylistic Variation in a Language Restricted to Private-Sphere Use (1994) 18 Telling the Monolinguals from the Bilinguals: Unrealistic Code Choices in Direct Quotations within Scottish Gaelic Narratives (1997) 19 Celebrations: In Praise of the Particular Voices of Languages at Risk (1999) part 5 Fieldwork: Methods, Problems, Insights 20 Gathering Language Data in Terminal Speech Communities (1986) 21 Surprises in Sutherland: Linguistic Variability amidst Social Uniformity (2001) 22 Documentation and Responsibility (2010) 23 The Private and the Public in Language Documentation and Revitalization (2010) Author Index General Index