Oral Languages and Modernity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Honoring Charles A. Ferguson VII
3. Contents XI
4. I. Linguistics, Child Language, Language and the Child
5. Borrowed Sounds 1
6. The Voice Warp: A Phonological Universal 17
7. Agreement, Rule Interaction and the Phonology-Syntax Interface 21
8. Velars and Final Consonants in Early Words 37
9. On the Acquisition of Final Voiced Stops 51
10. And They had to Speak Any Way... : Acquisition and Creolization of French. 69
11. Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Description, Language Change and Language Acquisition 83
12. The Interaction of Societal Factors in Language Acquisition 99
13. Babytalk as a Stereotype and Register: Adult Reports of Children's Speech Patterns 111
14. A Note on Ferguson's Proposed Baby-talk Universals 127
15. Children's Dispute and Negotiation Strategies: A Naturalistic Approach 135
16. Development of Negation in Tamil-Telugu Bilingual Children 153
17. Italian and Vernacular Writing in Southern Regions of Italy: A Semantic Approach to Children's Language Behaviour 171
18. Some Social Traits of the Bilingual Child's Personality 183
19. II. Arabic and Languages of Africa
20. The Ḥāl Construction And The Main Verb in the Sentence 191
21. The Possessive Predicate in North African Vernacular Arabic 197
22. The Verb 'See' in Arabic Dialects 211
23. The Comparative Study of Medieval Arabic Grammatical Theory 223
24. Arabie After Diglossia 239
25. Language Mentions in Jordanian Newspapers (The English-Language Press) 253
26. Were there Egyptian Koines? 271
27. Lexical Retention in Ethio-Semitic: Checking up on a Myth 291
28. The High Central Vowel in Amharic: New Approaches to an Old Problem 301
29. A Southwest Ethiopian Language Area and Its Cultural Background 327
30. Language, Literacy and Society The Case of Ethiopia 343
31. The Metaphorical Base of Grammatical Categories in Ewe (West Africa) 367
32. Simplicity on Command: On Pidginization of Swahili in Shaba (Zaire) 377
33. Aspects of Language Contact in Africa 387
34. III. Applied Linguistics
35. Descriptive and Functional Adequacies of Explicit Grammars 401
36. Authentic What, Who(m), and When 411
37. Activity Types and the Structure of Talk in Second Language Learning 419
38. Contrastive Sentence Perspective: English and German 437
39. Some Sociolinguistic Aspects of Error Analysis (EA) in Foreign Language (FL) Teaching (With Special Reference to Error Evaluation in the Federal Republic of Germany) 455
40. Sociolinguistics and Translating 471
41. Dialogue in One Language, Sub-Titles in Another: Some Alternatives for Learning Languages 479
42. Applied Linguistics and Language Planning: A Case Study 517
43. The Center for Applied Linguistics, 1972-1977 537
44. Front Matter 2 547
45. Honoring Charles A. Ferguson 553
46. Contents 2 557
47. IV. Microsociolinguistics: Acts, Actors and Events 565
48. Good Data in a Bad Situation: Eliciting Vernacular Structures 567
49. Deferential Speech Acts and the Pragmatics of Politeness in Tamil: from Case to Aspect 587
50. The Concept of Politeness and its Formulas in the Romanian Language 599
51. Language and Society: The Case of Japanese Politeness 623
52. Questions and Non-Answers 637
53. Riddling and Lying: Participation and Performance 653
54. Stereotype Foreigner Talk in German Literature 671
55. Role of Hypercorrection in French Linguistic Change 685
56. Naming in the Kashmiri Paṇḍit Community: Sociolinguistics and Anthroponymy 703
57. V. Sociolinguistic Situation and Bilingual Variation
58. Optimal Strategies in Linguistic Games 721
59. Secondary Responses, or Tertiary, to Language by Linguists 737
60. Variation in Australian Kriol 743
61. Sociolinguistic Varieties of Malay 755
62. Oral Languages and Modernity 771
63. Forms and Functions of Bilingual Speech in Pluricultural Migrant Communities in Switzerland 781
64. The Polyglossic Spectrum 801
65. The Dynamics of Plurilingual Situations 809
66. Multilingualism in Algeria 817
67. The Value and Problems of Census Data on Languages: An Evaluation of the Language Tables from the 1983 Population Census of Mauritius 829
68. On Being and Becoming Bilingual in India 843
69. Trade Function and Lingua Francas 859
70. V. Language Planning : Corpus and Status
71. Neologisms in Bislama (Vanuatu) 869
72. How does the Way Women are Referred to and Described Affect Their Participation in Development and Democracy? 879
73. Nathan Birnbaum's Third Phase: The Activization of Jewish Sanctity 889
74. From Lingua Franca to National Language: a Re-examination of the Origins of Standard Swahili 901
75. Pilipino and the Filipino's Renewed Search for a Linguistic Symbol of Unity and Identity 915
76. Implications of Canadian Research for Promoting a Language Competent American Society 925
77. The World Balance of Languages 935
78. VII. Diglossia: Particular Cases and General Re-examination
79. Bilingualism and a Sense of 'Peopleness' 951
80. Bilingualism and Diglossia in their Mutual Relationship 959
81. Diglossia and Code Switching 967
82. Diglossia Applied: Vernacular Mixing and Functional Switching with Bangui Yakomas 981
83. Diglossia in Bangladesh and Language Planning Problems 995
84. Diglossia in Bangla: a Study of Shifts in the Verbal Repertoire of the Educated Classes in Dhaka, Bangladesh 1015
85. VIII. Language Contact, Spread, Maintenance and Death
86. Language Contact Versus Language Conflict 1033
87. Towards a Systematization of Language Contact Dynamics 1047
88. Social Factors in Language Maintenance and Language Shift 1057
89. Language Contact and the Life or Death of Kugu Muminh 1077
90. Remarks on a Case of Language Decay and Revival 1097
91. Language Revival and Language Death 1107
92. Gathering Language Data in Terminal Speech Communities 1119
93. Charles A. Ferguson Bibliography 1945-1985 1141
94. Tabula Gratulatoria 1155