Chapter 3 Synchronic language definitions Identity, intelligibility, and contact

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Acknowledgements XI
4. Contents XIII
5. List of maps XXII
6. List of tables XXIII
7. List of figures XXVI
8. General abbreviations XXVIII
9. Data source abbreviations XXXI
10. Chapter 1 Introduction Synchronic Phula in diachronic perspective 1
11. Chapter 2 Research background Field methods, theory, and dialectology 44
12. Chapter 3 Synchronic language definitions Identity, intelligibility, and contact 96
13. Chapter 4 Ethnolinguistic vitality Contact, endangerment and shift 178
14. Chapter 5 Phula phonologies Five representative sketches 223
15. Chapter 6 The language clades of Phula Proper Establishing historical subgroupings 271
16. Chapter 7 Phula and Southeastern Ngwi Sani, Axi, Azhe, Azha, Nisu, and Phula Proper 352
17. Chapter 8 Conclusion Diachronic Phula in synchronic perspective 394
18. Appendix A Sociolinguistic questionnaires 433
19. Appendix B Lexical elicitation datasheet sample 442
20. Appendix C Similarity and distance matrices 444
21. Appendix D Sample RTT translation 447
22. Notes 449
23. References 460
24. Index 487