TY - BOOK AU - Batibo,Herman AU - Brenzinger,Matthias AU - Dimmendaal,Gerrit J. AU - Heine,Bernd AU - Legère,Karsten AU - Myers-Scotton,Carol AU - Möhlig,Wilhelm J.G. AU - Nurse,Derek AU - Okombo,Duncan Okoth AU - Rottland,Franz AU - Sasse,Hans-Jürgen AU - Sommer,Gabriele AU - Tosco,Mauro AU - Walsh,Martin AU - Winter,Christoph TI - Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa T2 - Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , SN - 9783110134049 AV - P40.5.L332 A3535 1992eb U1 - 306.4/4/09676 22 PY - 2012///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - Code switching (Linguistics) KW - Africa, East KW - Congresses KW - Language obsolescence KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Homburg ‹Höhe, 1990› KW - Kongress KW - Ostafrika KW - Sprachtod KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Preface --; 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 on language death in Africa --; Names of scholars --; Subject index --; Index of languages (and variants) --; 447-448; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110870602 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110870602 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110870602/original ER -