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The Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim
Osahito Miyaoka, Osamu Sakiyama, and Michael E. Krauss
552 pages
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Maps, figures, and tables
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246x171mm
978-0-19-926662-3
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Hardback
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12 April 2007
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- The most comprehensive survey ever published of the world's most diverse linguistic region
- Written by internationally known scholars
- Presents the results of original field research
- Accessibly written to appeal to a wide range of scholars and policy makers
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. Readership: Scholars and linguistic fieldworkers involved in the study of languages spoken in Australasia, New Guinea, Southeast Asia, Japan, Eastern China, Siberia, western Canada and the USA, Central American, and western South
America. Linguistic typologists and anthropologists. All those concerned with the process of language endangerment and extinction.
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Osahito Miyaoka, Osaka Gakuin University, Osamu Sakiyama, University of Shiga Prefecture, and Michael E. Krauss, University of Alaska Contributors:
Oscar E. Aguilera F., University of Arts and Social Sciences, Chile
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, La Trobe University
Marcellino Berardo, University of Kansas
David Bradley, La Trobe University
Bernard Comrie, MPI-EVA
Sabine Ehrhart, University of Saarbruecken
Fubito Endo, Wakayama University
Colette Grinevald, Departement des Sciences du Langage & Laboratoire, CNRS
Leanne Hinton,
University of California
Kumiko Ichihashi-Nakayama, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Michael E. Krauss, University of Alaska
Megumi Kurebito, Toyama University
Randy J. LaPolla, La Trobe University
Osahito Miyaoka, Osaka Gaguin University
Peter Muhlhausler, University of Adelaide
Hiroshi Nakagawa, Chiba University
Toshihide Nakayama, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Osami Okuda, Sapporo Gakuin University
Dory Poa, La Trobe University
Fumiko Sasama, Osaka Gakuin University
Shinji Sanada, Osaka University
Osamu Sakiyama, Retired Professor of Austronesian
Tonya N. Stebbins, La Trobe University
Shigeru Tsuchida, Teikyo
Heisei University
Naomi Tsukida, Aichi Prefectural University
Toshiro Tsumagari, Hokkaido University
Yukio Uemura, Retired Professor of Ryukyuan
Michael Walsh, University of Sydney
Honore Watanabe, Kagawa University
Akira Y. Yamamoto, University of Kansas
Yoshiho Yasugi, National Museum of Ethnology
Yukihiro Yumitani, Miyagi University
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Part I
1: Michael E. Krauss: Mass Language Extinction, and Documentation: The Race Against Time
2: Bernard Comrie: Documenting and/or Preserving Endangered Languages
3: Colette Grinevald: Linguistic Fieldwork Among Speakers of Endangered Languages
4: David Bradley: Language Policy and Language Rights
5: Toshihide Nakayama: Using Written Records to Revitalize North American Languages
6: Marcellino Berardo, and Akira Y. Yamamoto: Indigenous Voices and the Linguistics of Language Revitalization
7: Peter Muhlhausler and Sabine Ehrhart: Pidgins and Creoles in the
8: Osahito Miyaoka: Linguistic Diversity in Decline: A Functional View
Part II
South Pacific (Rim)
9: Yoshiho Yasugi: Languages of Middle America
10: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Languages of the Pacific Coast of South America
11: Oscar E. Aguilera F.: Fuegian Languages
12: Michael Walsh: Indigenous Languages of Australia
13: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Tonya N. Stebbins: Languages of New Guinea
14: Osamu Sakiyama: Languages of the Pacific Region: Malayo-Polynesian
Southeast Asia
15: Naomi Tsukida and Shigeru Tsuchida: Indigenous Languages of Formosa
16: David Bradley: Languages of Mainland South-East Asia
17: Dory Poa and Randy J. LaPolla: Minority Languages of China
18: Shinji Sanada and Yukio Uemura: Japanese Dialects and Ryukyuan
Northern Pacific Rim
19: Hiroshi Nakagawa and Osami Okuda: Nivkh and Ainu
20: Toshiro Tsumagari, Megumi Kurebito, and Fubito Endo: Siberia: Tungusic and Paleosiberian
21: Michael E. Krass: Native Languages of Alaska
22: Honore Watanabe and Fumiko Sasama: Languages of the Northwest Coast
23: Leanne Hinton: Languages of California
24: Kumiko Ichihashi-Nakayama, Yukihiro Yumitani, and Akira Y. Yamamoto: Languages of the South-West United States
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