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Greenbaum, Sidney; Nelson, Gerald – World Englishes, 1996
The International Corpus of English (ICE) was initiated to support study of the English used in countries where English is either a majority first language or an official additional language. The national or regional corpora are expected to conform to a specified common design. Software exists to facilitate the grammatical annotations of the…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, English
Fishman, Joshua A. – 1991
On the basis of detailed analyses of 10 threatened language-in-society constellations and three formerly endangered but now secure constellations, this book develops a closely argued theory of worldwide efforts on behalf of reversing language shift (RLS). It also applies this same line of reasoning to the problems of maintaining the…
Descriptors: Australian Aboriginal Languages, Basque, Code Switching (Language), Ethnic Groups