TY - GEN AB - In order to understand why languages become endangered, linguists must shift from documenting the last fluent speakers to documenting the larger ecology of language use in an area. The papers in this special issue all address different aspects of documenting language multilingualism. They address three related topics: (1) consideration of the state of multilingualism in endangered language ecologies; (2) tools and methods for transcribing, annotating, analyzing and presenting multilingual corpora; and (3) methods in documenting and studying language contact in process. AD - University of Chicago AD - College of William & Mary AU - Grenoble, Lenore A. AU - Martin, Jack B. DA - 2023-05-17 ID - 6610 JF - Journal of Language Contact KW - language shift KW - multilingualism KW - documentation L1 - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/6610/files/Documenting-Multilingualism-and-Contact.pdf L2 - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/6610/files/Documenting-Multilingualism-and-Contact.pdf L4 - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/6610/files/Documenting-Multilingualism-and-Contact.pdf LA - eng LK - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/6610/files/Documenting-Multilingualism-and-Contact.pdf N2 - In order to understand why languages become endangered, linguists must shift from documenting the last fluent speakers to documenting the larger ecology of language use in an area. The papers in this special issue all address different aspects of documenting language multilingualism. They address three related topics: (1) consideration of the state of multilingualism in endangered language ecologies; (2) tools and methods for transcribing, annotating, analyzing and presenting multilingual corpora; and (3) methods in documenting and studying language contact in process. PY - 2023-05-17 T1 - Documenting Multilingualism and Contact TI - Documenting Multilingualism and Contact UR - https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/6610/files/Documenting-Multilingualism-and-Contact.pdf Y1 - 2023-05-17 ER -