Symposium: Language Death, Endangerment, Documentation and Revitalization

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In Honor and in Memory of Mickey Noonan
Linguistics Symposium at UW-Milwaukee
Language Death, Endangerment, Documentation and Revitalization
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
October 20-22, 2011

In a globalized world where hundreds of languages are expected to become extinct in the 21st century, it is highly relevant to analyze the viability and continuity of threatened languages. The purpose of the 26th Linguistics Symposium is to discuss this impending loss to humankind from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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