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072 7a ref2 swepub-contenttype
072 7a art2 swepub-publicationtype
1001 a Zariquiey, Roberto4 aut
2451 0a Linking endangerment databases and descriptive linguistics :b an assessment of the use of terms relating to language endangerment in grammars
264 1b University of Hawaii Press,c 2022
338 a electronic2 rdacarrier
520 a The world harbours a diversity of some 6,500 mutually unintelligible languages. As has been increasingly observed by linguists, many minority languages are becoming endangered and will be lost forever if not documented. The increased urgency has led to the development of several global endangerment databases and a more fine-grained understanding of the language endangerment progression as well as its possible reversal. In the present paper, we explore the terminological correlates of this development as found in the descriptive linguistic literature, using a corpus of over 10,000 digitized grammatical descriptions. Comparing this with existing endangerment databases, we find that simply counting terms related to endangerment does signal endangerment, but the degree of endangerment is more difficult to assess from grammatical descriptions. The label endangered seems to be an umbrella term that covers different situations ranging from moribund languages with less than ten speakers to minority languages with several thousand speakers. For many languages considered endangered in existing databases, explicit terms to this effect cannot be found in their descriptions. The discrepancy is due to incompleteness of the searchterm set, gaps in the literature, and projected rather than observed information in the databases. Our explorations illustrate the potential for database curation assisted by computational searches both to maintain accuracy of the databases and to investigate assumed language endangerment. Future work includes a larger cloud of search terms, usage of term frequencies, and prescreening of descriptive literature for the existence of a relevant section. From the perspective of descriptive linguistics, this study calls for a more careful correlation between the language endangerment indexes, as developed in the global endangerment databases, and the treatment of the endangerment status of individual languages in descriptive grammars.
650 7a HUMANIORAx Språk och litteraturx Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik0 (SwePub)602012 hsv//swe
650 7a HUMANITIESx Languages and Literaturex General Language Studies and Linguistics0 (SwePub)602012 hsv//eng
650 7a NATURVETENSKAPx Data- och informationsvetenskapx Språkteknologi0 (SwePub)102082 hsv//swe
650 7a NATURAL SCIENCESx Computer and Information Sciencesx Language Technology0 (SwePub)102082 hsv//eng
7001 a Arakaki, Mónica4 aut
7001 a Vera, Javier4 aut
7001 a Torres-Orihuela, Guido4 aut
7001 a Cuba-Raime, Claret4 aut
7001 a Barrientos, Carlos4 aut
7001 a García, Aracelli4 aut
7001 a Ingunza, Adriano4 aut
7001 a Hammarström, Haraldu Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi4 aut0 (Swepub:uu)harha865
7102 a Uppsala universitetb Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi4 org
7730 t Language Documentation & Conservationd : University of Hawaii Pressg 16, s. 290-318q 16<290-318x 1934-5275
8564 u https://hdl.handle.net/10125/74681y Article in full-text
8564 u https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1718458/FULLTEXT01.pdfx primaryx Raw objecty fulltext:print
8564 8u https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-490584

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