Languages and Their StatusTimothy Shopen An introduction both to languages themselves and to their social role, Languages and Their Status gives insight into the meaning, value, and function of language within culture and into the ways language behavior varies and changes. It examines the part languages play in the evolution and structure of communities and, in turn, the ways languages are shaped by the social forces impinging on their speakers. |
Contents
RECAPTURING THE MOHAWK LANGUAGE | 3 |
Maps and Diagrams | 6 |
A PAPUAN LANGUAGE OF NEW GUINEA | 35 |
1 The Hua and Their Neighbors | 36 |
RUSSIAN | 91 |
1 Semantic Aspectual Classes | 122 |
3 Distribution of Ethnic Groups and Languages in | 142 |
CAPE YORK CREOLE | 153 |
1 Englishbased Pidgins and Creoles of the Southwestern | 159 |
SWAHILI | 209 |
1 The Area of East Africa in Which Swahili Is Spoken as | 210 |
DIALECT VARIATIONS AND LANGUAGE | 295 |
1 SinoTibetan Languages | 296 |
7 The Pictoral Origin of Chinese Characters | 323 |
8 Characters in Their Original and Simplified Forms | 330 |
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accusative adjectives Africa agreement all/they alphabet Arabic baie Bamaga bananas Bantu languages basilect borrowed Byelorussian Cape York Creole Caughnawaga Chaozhou Chinese Church Slavic čitájet clause concord particle consonant construction cook culture Cyrillic alphabet declension declensional class defends Viktor dialects distinction East Slavic English European example express final vowel gana gender grammatical Hakka Juma Kenya KiUnguja KiVumba linguistic Maksim Mandarin Mapoon mát meaning medial ending medial verb Mimi Mohawk Mombasa morphology native language ndizi nominative noun class nouns of class object person pidgin plural prefix present pronoun pronunciation rabótnik referring Russian Russian language semantic sentences singular situation Slavic languages sound Soviet Union speaking spoken standard language standard Swahili Stem Rule subrule suffix Tanzania third-person transitive verbs translation two/they Ukrainian Véra nabljudájet verb stem verbal Víktora vocabulary wewe word order Yu bin zaščiščájet zavód