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Volume 10 • 2011 • Special Issue on Humanities of the lesser-known: New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics

Front Matter


LDD 10 Table of contents

  • Niclas Burenhult
  • Arthur Holmer
  • Anastasia Karlsson
  • Håkan Lundström
  • Jan-Olof Svantesson

Volume 10 • 2011 • Special Issue on Humanities of the lesser-known: New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics

Editors' Introduction and List of Contributors (LDD 10)

  • Niclas Burenhult
  • Arthur Holmer
  • Anastasia Karlsson
  • Håkan Lundström
  • Jan-Olof Svantesson

Volume 10 • 2011 • Special Issue on Humanities of the lesser-known: New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics • 5-14

Research Articles


Song-poetry of Central Australia: sustaining traditions

  • Myfany Turpin

Volume 10 • 2011 • Special Issue on Humanities of the lesser-known: New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics • 15-36

Tone in speech and singing: a field experiment to research their relation in endangered languages of North East India

  • Stephen Morey
  • Jürgen Schöpf

Volume 10 • 2011 • Special Issue on Humanities of the lesser-known: New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics • 37-60

Assessing music shift: adapting EGIDS for a Papua New Guinea community

  • Neil R. Coulter

Volume 10 • 2011 • Special Issue on Humanities of the lesser-known: New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics • 61-81

Language and music in the songs of Minto, Alaska

  • Siri G. Tuttle

Volume 10 • 2011 • Special Issue on Humanities of the lesser-known: New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics • 82-112

The Wichita pitch phoneme: a first look

  • David S. Rood

Volume 10 • 2011 • Special Issue on Humanities of the lesser-known: New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics • 113-131

Conversation in Upper Tanana Athabascan: syntactic and prosodic patterns

  • Olga Lovick
  • Siri G. Tuttle

Volume 10 • 2011 • Special Issue on Humanities of the lesser-known: New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics • 132-176

Intonation in Ryukyuan: with reference to modality, syntax, and focus

  • Yasuko Nagano-Madsen

Volume 10 • 2011 • Special Issue on Humanities of the lesser-known: New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics • 177-207

Elusive articles in Sulawesi: between syntax and prosody

  • René van den Berg

Volume 10 • 2011 • Special Issue on Humanities of the lesser-known: New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics • 208-227

Main clause TAM-marking in Ngarla (Pama-Nyungan), in comparison with two neighbouring languages

  • Torbjörn Westerlund

Volume 10 • 2011 • Special Issue on Humanities of the lesser-known: New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics • 228-246

Grammaticalization of tense and aspect in Mbugwe: a preliminary investigation

  • Vera Wilhelmsen

Volume 10 • 2011 • Special Issue on Humanities of the lesser-known: New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics • 247-264

The increasing importance of animacy in the agreement systems of Ndengeleko and other Southern Coastal Bantu languages

  • Eva-Marie Ström

Volume 10 • 2011 • Special Issue on Humanities of the lesser-known: New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics • 265-287

Exploiting syntax to circumvent morphology: word order as a means for marking grammatical categories

  • Cynthia I. A. Hansen

Volume 10 • 2011 • Special Issue on Humanities of the lesser-known: New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics • 288-306

The perception verbs in Lussese (Bantu J10): a matter of experience

  • Marilena Thanassoula

Volume 10 • 2011 • Special Issue on Humanities of the lesser-known: New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics • 307-328