Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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-SamburuDialect 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)