This book explores the challenges to linguistic vitality confronting many minority languages in the highly diverse and geographically far-flung Austronesian lan

This is a National Foreign Language Resource Center conference volume and special issue of Language Documentation and Conservation, an open-access journal (http

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An essential source of reference for this linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax.