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Language Planning and Language Revival [PDF]

Current Issues in Language Planning, 2001
This paper explores the interface between language planning and language revival, based on current efforts to reclaim and reintroduce Kaurna, the language of the Adelaide Plains. This language probably had not been used on a daily basis for the best part of 130 years, until recent efforts in the 1990s to revive it.
Rob Amery
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Language change for the worse [PDF]

Many theories hold that language change, at least on a local level, is driven by a need for improvement. The present volume explores to what extent this assumption holds true, and whether there is a particular type of language change that we dub language
Schaden, Gerhard, Hyman, Larry M.; University of California, Berkeley, Elsweiler, Christine, Hölzl, Andreas, Faytak, Matthew, Hölzl, Andreas; University of Potsdam, Lapierre, Myriam, Weber, Thilo; Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Seiler, Guido; University of Zurich, Matoshi, Veton, Enke, Dankmar W.; LMU Munich, Nichols, Johanna; University of California, Berkeley, Deo, Ashwini, Huber, Judith, Reiner, Tabea, Jäger, Gerhard, Mühlenbernd, Roland   +16 more
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Third language acquisition: Age, proficiency and multilingualism [PDF]

, 2020
This book deals with the phenomenon of third language (L3) acquisition. As a research field, L3 acquisition is established as a branch of multilingualism that is concerned with how multilinguals learn additional languages and the role that their ...
Gudmundson, Anna, Sleeman, Petra, Sánchez, Laura, Sciutti, Sandro, Bardel, Camilla, Salaberry, Rafael, Muñoz, Carmen, Stadt, Rosalinde, Pfenninger, Simone E., Hulk, Aafke   +9 more
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Grammatical systems without language borders: Lessons from free-range language

, 2023
Current research in grammatical analysis and sociolinguistics points to two core characteristics of language that seem incommensurable at first sight: (1) research on linguistic structure indicates internal organisation and coherence, and the workings ...
Wiese, Heike
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Interpreting language-learning data [PDF]

, 2020
This book provides a forum for methodological discussions emanating from researchers engaged in studying how individuals acquire an additional language.
Gudmestad, Aarnes; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Huang, Xiaoliang; Beijing Foreign Studies University, Leclercq, Pascale; Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Trévisiol, Pascale; Université Paris 3 & DILTEC EA 2288, Watorek, Marzena; Université Paris 8 & UMR-SFL, CNRS, Scheuer, Sylwia; University of Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle, Horgues, Céline; University of Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle, Majdoub, Hedi; Université Paris 8 & UMR-SFL, CNRS, Yu, Xinyue Cécilia; Inalco - CNRS - EHESS, CRLAO, Pélissier, Maud; University of Agder, Rast, Rebekah; American University of Paris & UMR-SFL, CNRS, Søfteland, Åshild; Østfold University College, Guan, Qianwen; City University of Hong Kong, Emilsen, Linda Evenstad; Østfold University College, Hilton, Heather E.; Université Lumière Lyon 2, Edmonds, Amanda, Leclercq, Pascale, Osborne, John; Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Gudmestad, Aarnes   +18 more
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On the Revival of Dynamic Languages [PDF]

, 2005
The programming languages of today are stuck in a deep rut that has developed over the past 50 years. Although we are faced with new challenges posed by enormous advances in hardware and internet technology, we continue to struggle with old-fashioned languages based on rigid, static, closed-world file-based views of programming. We argue the need for a
Oscar Nierstrasz, Alexandre Bergel, Marcus Denker, Stéphane Ducasse, Markus Gälli, Roel Wuyts   +5 more
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What is the Role and Nature of Language and Language Development? [PDF]

, 2020
In this paper, the role and nature of language and language development will be discussed. Research and theory in second language acquisition has demonstrated that (i) language is an abstract, implicit and complex system.
Alessandro Benati, Benati, A
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Aboriginal Language Revival: The Intersectionality of Language Practices

Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue, 2023
Aboriginal language revival is a recent phenomenon in Australia (Rigney 2006; Troy 2012). Prior to British colonisation, Australia had over 250 distinct languages that could be subdivided into 600-700 dialects, clearly, Australia was composed of ‘multicultural and multilingual societies’ (Rigney 2006, 385). Today only 18 Indigenous languages are spoken
Tarunna Sebastian, Andrea Giovanangeli
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Scholarship and Language Revival: Language Ideologies in Corpus Development for Revived Manx

Studia Celtica Posnaniensia, 2017
AbstractIn this article the role of different ideological viewpoints concerning corpus development within the Manx revival movement in the second half of the twentieth century is explored. In particular, the work of two prominent figures is examined: the Celtic scholar Robert L.
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Language Revival or Language Construction?

RiCognizioni
The aim of this paper is to show that constructed languages provide rele- vant methods for the reconstruction and revitalization of natural languages. I use the example of Normannique, a reconstructed Scandinavian language de- rived from remnants of Old Norse found in Normandy’s place names (France) and currently the focus of a modest revitalization ...
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