Why one cannot preserve languages (but can preserve language ecologies)

Language Endangerment and Language Maintenance: An Active Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 34-39

  Mühlhäusler, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315028811-10     Document Type: Chapter

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