Language Death : : Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa / / ed. by Matthias Brenzinger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Batibo, Herman,; Brenzinger, Matthias,; Dimmendaal, Gerrit J.,; Heine, Bernd,; Legère, Karsten,; Myers-Scotton, Carol,; Möhlig, Wilhelm J. G.,; Nurse, Derek,; Okombo, Duncan Okoth,; Rottland, Franz,; Sasse, Hans-Jürgen,; Sommer, Gabriele,; Tosco, Mauro,; Walsh, Martin,; Winter, Christoph,
• HerausgeberIn: Brenzinger, Matthias,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 64
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (445 p.) :; 10 Ktn.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; 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-Samburu --; Dialect death: The case of Terik --; Language shift among the Suba of Kenya --; 175 years of language shift in Gweno --; Part III --; A survey on language death in Africa --; Names of scholars --; Subject index --; Index of languages (and variants) --; 447-448
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110870602; 9783110636895
• ISSN: 1861-0676
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110870602
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Matthias Brenzinger.