Language death : factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa / / edited by Matthias Brenzinger
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| Titolo: |
Language death : factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa / / edited by Matthias Brenzinger
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| Pubblicazione: | Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1992 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (456 pages) : maps |
| Disciplina: | 306.4/4/09676 |
| Soggetto topico: | Language obsolescence - Africa, East |
| Code switching (Linguistics) - Africa, East | |
| Sociolinguistics - Africa, East | |
| Classificazione: | ES 425 |
| Altri autori: |
BrenzingerMatthias <1957->
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Language death |
| ISBN: | 3-11-087060-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809805403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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