TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brenzinger,Matthias
TI  - Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa
T2  - Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] Series
SN  - 9783110870602
AV  - P40.5.L332.A3535 19 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Berlin/Boston
PB  - De Gruyter, Inc.
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- 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 of language death in Africa -- Names of scholars -- Subject index -- Index of languages (and variants)
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ER  -