Publications

Publication details [#28213]

Brenzinger, Matthias. 1992. Language death: Factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa. De Gruyter Mouton. viii + 445 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | language contact | language death | language shift

Language as a subject

Languages, East African

Annotation

This collection of articles on language death, mainly consists of two parts. Part I contains a theoretical contribution on language death, a data-oriented paper on language decay and contact-induced change, and a general article on code-switching and language death. Part II presents studies on dying or dead East African languages.

Reviewed by

Kaye, Alan S. 1996. Review of $Language death: Factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa.

Senft, Gunter. 1993. Review of $Language death: Factual and theoretical explorations with special reference to East Africa.