UID:
almafu_9959229266602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (456 pages) :
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ISBN:
3-11-087060-6
Serie:
Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; 64
Anmerkung:
"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.
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Front matter --
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Preface --
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Contents --
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Part I --
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Social contexts of language death /
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Theory of language death /
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Codeswitching as a mechanism of deep borrowing, language shift, and language death /
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Language decay and contact-induced change: Similarities and differences /
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Part II --
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East African case studies /
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The fate of ethnic languages in Tanzania /
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Language shift in Tanzania /
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Reduction in Kore reconsidered /
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Dahalo: An endangered language /
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Language death and the origin of strata: Two case studies of Swahili dialects /
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Chifundi and Vumba: Partial shift, no death /
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Lexical retention in language shift: Yaaku/Mukogodo-Maasai and Elmolo/Elmolo-Samburu /
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Dialect death: The case of Terik /
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Language shift among the Suba of Kenya /
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175 years of language shift in Gweno /
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Part III --
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A survey on language death in Africa /
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Names of scholars --
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Subject index --
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Index of languages (and variants) --
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Backmatter
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Issued also in print.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 3-11-179261-7
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 3-11-013404-7
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen
DOI:
10.1515/9783110870602
