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.

Table of Contents

• 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