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Language attrition

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• Bilingualism
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• Language attrition -- China
• Language attrition -- Congresses

• Language loss

• Teaching and Learning Tibetan; The Role of the Tibetan Language in Tibet's Future: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, April 7, 2003 (Washington: GPO, 2003), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2006; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2008), ed. by Kendall A. King, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Jia Jackie Lou, Lyn Wright, and Barbara Soukup (PDF at Georgetown)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Norwegian Language in America: A Study in Bilingual Behavior (2 volumes; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953), by Einar Haugen (page images at HathiTrust)

• DND Language Reform: Staffing the Bilingualism Programs, 1967-1977, by Armand Letellier (PDF in Canada)
• Bilingualism: Address Delivered before the Quebec Canadian Club (Quebec: Telegraph Printing Co., 1916), by Napoleon Antoine Belcourt (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• French Canadians and Bilingualism in the Canadian Forces, by Jean Pariseau and Serge Bernier
  • Volume I (1763-1969): PDF in Canada
  • Volume I (1969-1987): PDF in Canada

• Bilingualism: Address Delivered before the Quebec Canadian Club (Quebec: Telegraph Printing Co., 1916), by Napoleon Antoine Belcourt (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• Report Of The Thirteenth Annual Round Table Meeting On Linguistics And Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1963), ed. by Elisabeth Delorme Woodworth and Robert J. Di Pietro (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Fifth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1954), ed. by Hugo J. Mueller (PDF at Georgetown)

• Current Issues in Bilingual Education (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1980; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1980), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
• International Dimensions of Bilingual Education (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1978; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1978), ed. by James E. Alatis, contrib. by E. Glyn Lewis, William Francis Mackey, Einar Haugen, Joshua A. Fishman, Shirley Brice Heath, José Andrés Vázquez, Robert L. Cooper, Sarita G. Schotta, Henry Kahane, Renée Kahane, Braj B. Kachru, Muriel Saville-Troike, Maria Medina Swanson, Merrill Swain, Eric P. Hamp, H. H. Stern, Joan Rubin, Yolanda Lastra, Wallace E. Lambert, Christina Bratt Paulston, Bernard Spolsky, Gilbert Ansre, Bonifacio P. Sibayan, Adebisi Afolayan, Beatriz R. Lavandera, John W. Oller, G. Richard Tucker, Gary A. Cziko, Gilbert Narro Garcia, Charles H. Blatchford, Robert Lado, J. Donald Bowen, Robert J. Di Pietro, Mary Finocchiaro, Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez, Heidi C. Dulay, Marina K. Burt, John B. Carroll, Charles A. Ferguson, Roger W. Shuy, Dennis R. Craig, Frederic G. Cassidy, Alan R. Thomas, Nancy C. Dorian, William Leap, and Noel Epstein (PDF at Georgetown)
• Bilingualism and Language Contact (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1970; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1970), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)

• Current Issues in Bilingual Education (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1980; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1980), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)

• Current Issues in Bilingual Education (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1980; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1980), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)

• Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, Attrition and Change (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2015), ed. by Janne Bondi Johannessen and Joe Salmons (PDF files with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Delivering on the Promise of Democracy: Visual Case Studies in Educational Equity and Transformation (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), by Sukhwant Jhaj (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Model Strategies in Bilingual Education: Professional Development (1995), by Mary S. Leighton, Amy M. Hightower, and Pamela G. Wrigley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reading in the Bilingual Classroom: Literacy and Biliteracy (originally printed 1978, reprinted 1984), by Kenneth S. Goodman, Yetta M. Goodman, and Barbara Flores (page images at HathiTrust)
• Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children: A Research Agenda (1997), ed. by Diane August and Kenji Hakuta (page images at NAP)
• Applying Significant Bilingual Instructional Features in the Classroom, by William J. Tikunoff (PDF at ed.gov)
• A Guide to Family Reading in Two Languages: The Preschool Years (1981), by Theodore Andersson (PDF with commentary at ed.gov)
• A Guide to Culture in the Classroom (Rosslyn, VA: National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, 1978), by Muriel Saville-Troike (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Case of Bilingual Education Strategies, ed. by Michael M. Meyer and Stephen E. Fienberg (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1999; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1999), ed. by James E. Alatis and Ai-Hui Tan (PDF at Georgetown)

• Can Language be Planned? Sociolinguistic Theory for Developing Nations (originally published 1971; this edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), ed. by Joan Rubin and Björn H. Jernudd
  • PDF and Epub at Hawaii
  • HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE
• The Civilization of Illiteracy (1997), by Mihai Nadin (Gutenberg text)
• Speech and Respect (Hamlyn Lectures, #44; London: Stevens and Sons/Sweet and Maxwell, 1994), by Richard L. Abel (PDF in the UK)
• Fatwas and Court Judgments: A Genre Analysis of Arabic Legal Opinion (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Ahmed Fakhri (PDF at Ohio State)
• Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by LuMing Mao (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Afro-Bolivian Spanish Determiner Phrase: A Microparametric Account (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Sandro Sessarego (PDF at Ohio State)

• VARIATIONist Linguistics Meets CONTACT Linguistics (Göttingen: V&R Unipress and Vienna University Press, c2020), ed. by Alexandra N. Lenz and Mateusz Maselko (PDF files with commentary at V&R eLibrary)
• Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2002; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2004), ed. by Philip LeVine and Ronald Scollon (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics, Language, and the Real World: Discourse and Beyond (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2001; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2003), ed. by Deborah Tannen and James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Language, Communication, and Social Meaning (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1992; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1992), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics and Language Pedagogy: The State of the Art (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1991; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1991), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Language Spread and Language Policy: Issues, Implications, and Case Studies (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1987; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1988), ed. by Peter H. Lowenberg (PDF at Georgetown)
• Meaning, Form, and Use in Context: Linguistic Applications (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1984; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1984), ed. by Deborah Schiffrin (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics and Anthropology (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1977; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1977), ed. by Muriel Saville-Troike (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics: Teaching and Interdisciplinary Relations (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1974; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1974), ed. by Francis P. Dinneen (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics, Language, and the Professions: Education, Journalism, Law, Medicine, and Technology (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2000; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2002), ed. by James E. Alatis, Heidi Ehernberger Hamilton, and Ai-Hui Tan (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation: Current Trends and Future Prospects (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1996; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1996), ed. by James E. Alatis, Carolyn A. Straehle, Maggie Ronkin, and Brent Gallenberger (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics and the Education of Language Teachers: Ethnolinguistic, Psycholinguistic, and Sociolinguistic Aspects (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1995; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1995), ed. by James E. Alatis, Carolyn A. Straehle, Brent Gallenberger, and Maggie Ronkin (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistics, Language Teaching and Language Acquisition: The Interdependence of Theory, Practice and Research (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1990; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1990), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
• Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2008; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c2010), ed. by Deborah Schiffrin, Anna De Fina, and Anastasia Nylund (PDF at Georgetown)
• Language in Public Life (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1979; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1979), ed. by James E. Alatis and G. Richard Tucker (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Sixteenth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Studies (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1965), by Charles W. Kreidler (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Seventh Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1956), ed. by Paul L. Garvin (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Fifth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1954), ed. by Hugo J. Mueller (PDF at Georgetown)

• Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution: Computational Linguistics and History (London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, c2017), by Tony McEnery and Helen Baker (PDF and Epub with commentary at OAPEN)

• Un(intended) Language Planning in a Globalising World: Multiple Levels of Players at Work (Warsaw and Boston : De Gruyter, c2018), ed. by Phyllis Ghim Lian Chew, Catherine Chua, Kerry Taylor-Leech, and Colin H. Williams (PDF and Epub with commentary at De Gruyter Brill)

• Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), ed. by Roberta D'Alessandro, Michael T. Putnam, and Silvia Terenghi (HTML with commentary at OUP)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.