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This quantity represents a part of an exceptional and nonetheless starting to be attempt to develop, coordinate and disseminate the medical documentation of endangered languages. because the speed of language extinction raises, linguists and local groups are accelerating their efforts to talk, bear in mind, checklist, study and archive up to attainable of our universal human history that's linguistic range. The window of chance for documentation is narrower than the particular life of a language, and is now quickly remaining for plenty of languages represented during this quantity. The authors of those papers unveil newly amassed info from formerly poorly recognized and endangered languages. They set up hugely complicated linguistic proof - paradigms, affixes, vowel styles - whereas mentioning the theoretically hard points of those. past this, they think of the social and human dimensions, discussing specific difficulties of nostalgia and modernity, reminiscence and forgetting, and obsolescence and ethics, whereas viewing language as now not purely info on a web page yet as a residing production within the minds and mouths of its audio system.
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Until now, three sets of data had been available on SLM. The first, on which various papers by Smith and colleagues are based (for an overview see Smith et al. c. 2005). The second consists of a dozen very short narratives collected by Bichsel-Stettler in the 1980s, amounting perhaps to half an hour of recording, in the central areas of the country and Colombo (Bichsel-Stettler 1989). c. 2005). . See Ansaldo (2005a) for a fuller account. 14 (26) Umberto Ansaldo Table 2. Case in Kirinda Java12 Markers Semantic role Traditional case terminology Ø -ya] -na]/ -da] -pe -ka -ri] -le Agent Patient Experiencer, also Goal Possessor Location Instrument/ also Source Association Nominative Accusative Dative Possessive Locative Instrumental Comitative Table 3.
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