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 and Jan-Olof Svantesson

2011-07-31 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 and Jan-Olof Svantesson

2011-07-31 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

2011-07-31 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 and Jürgen Schöpf

2011-07-31 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

2011-07-31 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

2011-07-31 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

2011-07-31 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 and Siri G. Tuttle

2011-07-31 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

2011-07-31 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

2011-07-31 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

2011-07-31 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

2011-07-31 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

2011-07-31 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

2011-07-31 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

2011-07-31 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