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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464773603321

Titolo

Language death : factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa / / edited by Matthias Brenzinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1992

ISBN

3-11-087060-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (456 pages) : maps

Collana

Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; ; 64

Contributions to the sociology of language ; ; 64

Altri autori (Persone)

BrenzingerMatthias <1957->

Disciplina

306.4/4/09676

Soggetti

Language obsolescence - Africa, East

Code switching (Linguistics) - Africa, East

Sociolinguistics - Africa, East

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Articles ... based on contributions initially prepared for an international symposium on 'Language death in East Africa,' held at the Werner-Reimers Foundation in Bad Homburg (Germany) from January 8-12, 1990"--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I -- Social contexts of language death / Brenzinger, Matthias / Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. -- Theory of language death / Sasse, Hans-Jürgen -- Codeswitching as a mechanism of deep borrowing, language shift, and language death / Myers-Scotton, Carol -- Language decay and contact-induced change: Similarities and differences / Sasse, Hans-Jürgen -- Part II -- East African case studies / Brenzinger, Matthias -- The fate of ethnic languages in Tanzania / Batibo, Herman -- Language shift in Tanzania / Legère, Karsten -- Reduction in Kore reconsidered / Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. -- Dahalo: An endangered language / Tosco, Mauro -- Language death and the origin of strata: Two case studies of Swahili dialects / Möhlig, Wilhelm J. G. -- Chifundi and Vumba: Partial shift, no death / Nurse, Derek / Walsh, Martin -- Lexical retention in language shift: Yaaku/Mukogodo-Maasai and Elmolo/Elmolo-Samburu / Brenzinger, Matthias -- Dialect death: The case of Terik / Heine, Bernd -- Language shift among the Suba of Kenya / Rottland, Franz / Okombo, Duncan Okoth -- 175 years of language shift in Gweno /



Winter, Christoph -- Part III -- A survey on language death in Africa / Sommer, Gabriele -- Names of scholars -- Subject index -- Index of languages (and variants) -- Backmatter