175 years of language shift in Gweno

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. Part I
5. Social contexts of language death 3
6. Theory of language death 7
7. Codeswitching as a mechanism of deep borrowing, language shift, and language death 31
8. Language decay and contact-induced change: Similarities and differences 59
9. Part II
10. East African case studies 83
11. The fate of ethnic languages in Tanzania 85
12. Language shift in Tanzania 99
13. Reduction in Kore reconsidered 117
14. Dahalo: An endangered language 137
15. Language death and the origin of strata: Two case studies of Swahili dialects 157
16. Chifundi and Vumba: Partial shift, no death 181
17. Lexical retention in language shift: Yaaku/Mukogodo-Maasai and Elmolo/Elmolo-Samburu 213
18. Dialect death: The case of Terik 255
19. Language shift among the Suba of Kenya 273
20. 175 years of language shift in Gweno 285
21. Part III
22. A survey on language death in Africa 301
23. Names of scholars 419
24. Subject index 425
25. Index of languages (and variants) 431
26. 447-448 447