David M. Eberhard

• PhD in Linguistics
• General Editor at SIL International

http://www.lotpublications.nl/mamainde-grammar-mamainde-grammar-a-northern-nambikwara-language-and-its-cultural-context

This paper describes the extensive tense/evidentiality system of Mamaindê, a northern Nambikwara language of Brazil. This morphological system performs a dual function in Mamaindê, that of marking tense as well as indicating information source. First, each of the six evidentials are discussed in detail, followed by a section on the use of evidentia...

Updated regularly at: http://www.leadimpact.org/language/#the-future-of-our-language. This guide is to be used for language development by the speakers of minority languages themselves. It is particularly helpful to endangered language communities by providing awareness of their general sociolinguistic situation and current patterns of language use...

Preâmbulo O enfraquecimento e desaparecimento de centenas de línguas minoritárias no mundo todo tem sido reconhecido como um assunto de urgência mundial por linguistas e antropólogos durante as últimas duas décadas. Um dos alertas iniciais, e com certeza o mais citado, foi dado pelo linguista Michael Krauss (1992) 1 , que nos acordou para a realida...

Neste artigo descreve-se o sistema de classificadores nominais na língua mamaindê, no Centro-Oeste brasileiro. Esta língua pertence ao subgrupo Guaporé dentro do conjunto Nambikwara do Norte, na família linguística Nambikwara. Esta família se espalha pelo norte e oeste do estado de Mato Grosso, na divisa com a Rondônia. Esta língua utiliza uma morf...

Though computer mediated communication has been widely studied, private messaging in minoritized languages (many without standardized orthographies) is an area of minimal research. This article looks at texting in four multilingual language communities: Maguindanaon (Philippines), Sebuyau (Malaysia), Mamaindê (Brazil) and Marubo (Brazil). The major...

This describes the use of the L1 in texting among the Maguindanaon people of the Philippines, as well as short descriptions of texting in 3 other minority language communities. Concludes with a proposal for the Language Repertoire Matrix - a framework for understanding how the texting repertories of minority languages pattern either after their ora...

Every language has a way of saying how one knows what one is talking about, and what one thinks about what one knows. In some languages, one always has to specify the information source on which it is based—whether the speaker saw the event, or heard it, or inferred it based on something seen or on common sense, or was told about it by someone else...

Every language has a way of saying how one knows what one is talking about, and what one thinks about what one knows. In some languages, one always has to specify the information source on which it is based—whether the speaker saw the event, or heard it, or inferred it based on something seen or on common sense, or was told about it by someone else...

The loss of a minority group’s language may or may not be accompanied by the loss of the same group’s identity. This study explores the factors that appear to condition identity choices among minority communities. A number of language communities in advanced stages of language shift are chosen as case studies. Based on these case studies, a framewo...

This study will provide a critique of preliminary results obtained from the application of the ‘Guide for Planning the Future of Our Language’ (Hanawalt, Varenkamp, Lahn, & Eberhard 2015) in minority speech communities. This recent methodological tool was developed to enable and empower minoritized language groups to do their own language planning...

An Evaluation of three alternative analyses of bi-phasic nasals in Mamaindê: an Auto-segmental approach, an OT approach, and a Phonetic Implementation strategy

Language use patterns of individual speech communities are largely conditioned by the different language ecologies in which they are immersed. We believe this ecological stance helps explain why minority languages of Asia are more likely to be sustainable than those in the Americas. We have identified fourteen traits which characterize ecologies in...

Uma metodologia para o desenvolvimento das línguas minoritárias com base na comunidade. É um método prático que pretende ajudar os líderes das comunidades minoritárias fazerem a sua própria avaliação da vitalidade da sua língua e depois elaborar o seu próprio plano para fortalecer o seu repertório linguístico.

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