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Language Death : Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa / ed. by Matthias Brenzinger.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; 64Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (445 p.) : 10 KtnContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110134049
  • 9783110870602
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4/4/09676 22
LOC classification:
  • P40.5.L332 A3535 1992eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
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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

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Issued also in print.

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