Main group 1

*The PDF of all references will be provided on the course's webpage.

• Thomason, Sarah Grey, Endangered languages: an introduction, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015Compulsory*
• Bromham, Lindell, Language endangerment: Using analytical methods from conservation biology to illuminate loss of linguistic diversity, Part of: Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, uuuu-uuuu, vol. 1, Cambridge Prisms: Extinction Volume 1 2023Compulsory*
• Stauffer, C, Population today: Building pyramids, Part of: Population today, vol. May;27(5):3, 1999, Building pyramidsCompulsory*
• Preston, Samuel H.; Heuveline, Patrick; Guillot, Michel, Demography: measuring and modeling population processes, Oxford, Blackwell, cop. 2001Compulsory* (The Balancing Equation of Population Change.pp.2–2. The Lexis Diagram. pp.31–31. Age-specific probabilities. pp. 32–34.)
• de Vries, John, On coming to our census: A layman's guide to demolinguistics, Part of: Journal of multilingual and multicultural development., vol. 11, 2010, On coming to our census: A layman's guide to demolinguisticsCompulsory*
• Hammarström, Harald, Linguistic diversity and language evolution, Part of: Journal of Language Evolution, vol. 1, no. 1, 2016, Linguistic diversity and language evolutionCompulsory*
• Harmon, David; Loh, Jonathan, The index of linguistic diversity: A new quantitative measure of trends in the status of the world's languages, Part of: Language documentation and conservation, vol. 4, 2010Compulsory*
• Lewis, M Paul; Simons, Gary F, Assessing endangerment: Expanding Fishman's GIDS, Part of: Revue roumaine de linguistique., vol. LV, no. 2, 2010, Assessing endangerment: Expanding Fishman's GIDSCompulsory*
• Moseley, C, UNESCO atlas of the world's languages in danger: Context and process, Part of: UNESCO atlas of the world's languages in danger [electronic resource], 200u-, World Oral Literaure Project
• Lee, Nala Huiying; Van Way, John, Assessing levels of endangerment in the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) using the Language Endangerment Index (LEI)., Part of: Language in society, 2016, Assessing levels of endangerment in the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) using the Language Endangerment Index (LEI).
• Abrams, Daniel M.; Strogatz, Steven H., Modelling the dynamics of language death, Part of: Nature, vol. 424, 2003, Modelling the dynamics of language death
• Beltran, Francesc S. et al., Forecasting a Language Shift Based on Cellular Automata', Part of: Journal of artificial societies and social simulation, vol. 12, 2009, Forecasting a Language Shift Based on Cellular Automata'
• Simons, Gary F., Two Centuries of Spreading Language Loss, Part of: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, vol. 4.1, 2019
• Boissonneault, M. et al., Exploring the future of Canada's Indigenous languages: an individual-based demographic projection approach., Working paper, 2023

* Compulsory