Reproduction and preservation of linguistic knowledge: Linguistics' response to language endangerment

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 37, Issue , 2008, Pages 337-350

  Himmelmann, Nikolaus P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fieldwork ethics; Language documentation; Linguistic structuralism

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 55349096510     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.37.081407.085226     Document Type: Article

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