03564nam 22006251 450 991080980540332120230421054940.03-11-087060-610.1515/9783110870602(CKB)3390000000033851(SSID)ssj0000849366(PQKBManifestationID)11531563(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000849366(PQKBWorkID)10812140(PQKB)10295997(MiAaPQ)EBC3044298(DE-B1597)55383(OCoLC)979753060(DE-B1597)9783110870602(Au-PeEL)EBL3044298(CaPaEBR)ebr10782259(OCoLC)922947505(EXLCZ)99339000000003385119920701d1992 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrLanguage death factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa /edited by Matthias BrenzingerBerlin ;New York :Mouton de Gruyter,1992.1 online resource (456 pages) mapsContributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ;64Contributions to the sociology of language ;64"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.3-11-179261-7 3-11-013404-7 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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) --BackmatterLanguage obsolescenceAfrica, EastCongressesCode switching (Linguistics)Africa, EastCongressesSociolinguisticsAfrica, EastCongressesLanguage obsolescenceCode switching (Linguistics)Sociolinguistics306.4/4/09676ES 425rvkBrenzinger Matthias1957-301939MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809805403321Language death4029218UNINA