Language Death
Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa
1st Edition
Published on 25. October 2012
VIII, 445 pages
978-3-11-087060-2 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
10 Ktn., 12 s/w Tabellen, 3 s/w Abbildungen
3 b/w ill., 12 b/w tbl., 10 maps
File size
10,30 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-11-087060-2 (9783110870602)
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Matthias Brenzinger
Language Death
Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa
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09/1992
1st Edition
De Gruyter Mouton
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Content
- Intro
- 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)
