Author: Tjeerd de GraafPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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The Use of Linguistic Databases and the Study of Language Minorities on Both Sides of the North Pacific Rim
Author: Tjeerd de GraafThe Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim
Author: Osahito MiyaokaPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019926662X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 549
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Linguistic databases and language minorities around the North Pacific Rim
Author: IASA Journal
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Category : Sound recording libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
And He Knew Our Language
Author: Marcus TomalinPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027246076
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible for introducing many innovative and insightful grammatical analyses. Rather than merely adopting Graeco-Roman models, they drew extensively upon studies of non-European languages, and a careful exploration of their scripture translations reveal the origins of the Haida sociolect that emerged as a result of the missionary activity. The complex interactions between the missionaries and anthropologists are also discussed, and it is shown that the former sometimes anticipated linguistic analyses that are now incorrectly attributed to the latter. Since this book draws upon recent work in theoretical linguistics, religious history, translation studies, and anthropology, it emphasises the unavoidably interdisciplinary nature of Missionary Linguistics research.
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Author: Pacific Rim
Author: Walter Wilfried SchuhmacherPublisher:
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Category : Austronesian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Language Diversity in the Pacific
Author: Denis CunninghamPublisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1853598674
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Southwest Pacific from Southern China through Indonesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands constitutes the richest linguistic region of the world. That rich resource cannot be taken for granted. Some of its languages have already been lost; many more are under threat. The challenge is to describe the languages that exist today and to adopt policies that will support their maintenance.
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