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Language death : factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
1992.
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| Series: | Contributions to the sociology of language ;
64. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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)