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Publication details [#3052]

Elmendorf, William W. 1981. Last speakers and language change: Two Californian cases. Anthropological Linguistics 23 (1) : 36–49.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
language change | language choice | language death | social context

Annotation

Discusses the reduction in repertoire, as a language loses its speakers, caused by the reduction of social communicative situations for language use.