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Title: | Linguistic Topography and Language Survival | Contributor(s): | van Driem, George (author) | Publication Date: | 2017 | DOI: | 10.1163/9789004328693_019 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20960 | Abstract: | A number of heterogeneous factors determine the survival and death of languages. At Ardahan in 2014, I coined the term 'linguistic topography' to denote the sociolinguistic situation of endangered languages in terms of the diverse factors which determine a language's prospects for extinction or survival.1 The notion of linguistic topography is inspired by August Schleicher and Salikoko Mufwene and opposed to a distinct and, as I shall argue here, complementary approach to language, of which I am a proponent, inspired by Friedrich Max Müller. Charting the linguistic topography of any particular language embodies an attempt to distinguish, analyse and quantify the heterogeneous factors which determine the propensity of that language at any given time in its history to thrive or to fall into desuetude. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Endangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond, p. 258-274 | Publisher: | Brill | Place of Publication: | Leiden, Netherlands | ISBN: | 9789004328693 9789004325647 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200406 Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470406 Historical, comparative and typological linguistics | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950202 Languages and Literacy | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130202 Languages and linguistics | HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/241435811 | Series Name: | Languages of Asia | Series Number : | 15 | Editor: | Editor(s): Ramazan Korkmaz and Gurkan Dogan |
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