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Epistemological issue: The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies
Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1] 2023
► pp. 122–132
Response to the commentaries

Understanding language shift

ORCID logo | University of Chicago
ORCID logo | North-Eastern Federal University | Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North | Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

This is a response to the commentaries on our epistemological paper, The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies. The commentaries highlight the challenges in studying language shift ecologies and the competing goals of different research approaches. We hope this set of papers invokes rich discussion about other possible research questions we can ask and the research methodologies we can use to answer them.

Keywords: language shift, language change, experimental fieldwork, endangered languages
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The role of typologies in understanding language shift
  • 3.Establishing a baseline
  • 4.Methodology
  • 5.Input
  • 6.Variation and micro-variation
  • 7.Community needs
  • 8.Theoretical questions
  • References
Published online: 2 February 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.22100.gre
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