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Language Endangerment and Obsolescence in East Asia
China, Japan, Siberia, and Taiwan
Series: - Languages of Asia, Volume: 27
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.
Elia Dal Corso, received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the SOAS University of London (UK) and is an adjunct professor in Japanese language and Ainu language at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He is author of
The Language and Folklore of West Sakhalin Ainu: A Re-edition of Kyōko Murasaki’s ‘Karafuto Ainugo’ with Translation and Grammatical Notes (Lincom Publishing, 2021).
Soung-U Kim, received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the SOAS University of London (UK) and is a Research Associate in Jejuan and Koreanic Linguistics at SOAS' Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. He has published articles and material on online databases on language documentation, descriptive linguistics, and linguistic anthropology.
Soung-U Kim, received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the SOAS University of London (UK) and is a Research Associate in Jejuan and Koreanic Linguistics at SOAS' Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. He has published articles and material on online databases on language documentation, descriptive linguistics, and linguistic anthropology.
This book will appeal to a wide audience of readers interested in endangered languages and language obsolescence, as well as in sociolinguistic typology, cross-linguistic studies, and East Asian languages more widely.