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Language endangerment and obsolescence in East Asia [electronic resource] : China, Japan, Siberia, and Taiwan / edited by Elia Dal Corso, Soung-U Kim

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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
Physical Description
xi, 264 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
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Dal Corso, Elia, Kim, Soung-U., and Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (1 : 2020 : Venice, Italy)
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Contents
Introduction (Dal Corso and Kim) -- Chapter 1. Vowel aspiration and glottalisation across Udihe dialects: Phonetics, Phonology, Evolution, Typology (Kuznetsova) -- Chapter 2. Spatial cases in Udihe: A corpus analysis (Perekhvalskaya) -- Chapter 3. The Double-Subject construction in East Asian languages restricted to the possessive type: A typological survey (Wang and Shimoji) -- Chapter 4. Lost voices: The obsolescence of locative and instrumental voice constructions in Amis and Sakizaya (McNaught) -- Chapter 5. Language contact in an asymmetrical sociolinguistic environment: the case of Nuosu, a Tibeto-Burman language of Sichuan, China (Hongdi) -- Chapter 6. The syncretism of passive and potential marking in japonic seen through modern south Ryukyuan languages (Jarosz) -- Chapter 7. Introducing a polynomic approach counteracting language obsolescence in the Ryukyus (van der Lubbe) -- language Index -- subject Index.
Summary
"What shapes and magnitude can language loss have in East Asian endangered languages? How does it differ with regards to the languages' historical development and sociolinguistic environment? This book surveys a number of minority and, in most cases, endangered languages spoken in China, Japan, Taiwan, and Russia which all face, or have faced in their recent history, loss of language features. The contributions in this publication present you with different cases of obsolescence attested throughout East Asia and highlight how this process, though often leading back to common causes, is in fact a multifaceted reality with diverse repercussions on grammar and linguistic vitality"--
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9789004519046 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
9789004523944 (ebook)
Note
"This book is based on a number of selected papers presented at the First Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA1) hosted at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Venice, Italy) on September 2-3, 2020" -- page 1.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-258) and index.
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