Language death factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
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| Sprache: | English |
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Berlin ; New York
Mouton de Gruyter
1992
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| Schriftenreihe: | Contributions to the sociology of language
64 |
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1047 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- ""Contents""; ""Part I""; ""Social contexts of language death""; ""Theory of language death""; ""Codeswitching as a mechanism of deep borrowing, language shift, and language death""; ""Language decay and contact-induced change: Similarities and differences""; ""Part II""; ""East African case studies""; ""The fate of ethnic languages in Tanzania""; ""Language shift in Tanzania""; ""Reduction in Kore reconsidered""; ""Dahalo: An endangered language""; ""Language death and the origin of strata: Two case studies of Swahili dialects""; ""Chifundi and Vumba: Partial shift, no death""
- ""Lexical retention in language shift: Yaaku/Mukogodo-Maasai and Elmolo/Elmolo-Samburu""""Dialect death: The case of Terik""; ""Language shift among the Suba of Kenya""; ""175 years of language shift in Gweno""; ""Part III""; ""A survey of language death in Africa""; ""Names of scholars""; ""Subject index""; ""Index of languages (and variants)""