Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ;
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Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-421).
Language obsolescence and language history: matters of linearity, leveling, loss, and the like / Henry M. Hoenigswald -- Language convergence and language death as social processes / Kathryn A. Woolard -- Pidgins, creoles, immigrant, and dying languages / Suzanne Romaine -- The "up" and "down" staircase in secondary language development / Roger W. Andersen.
On language death in eastern Africa / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- The disapperance of the Ugong in Thailand / David Bradley -- Scottish and Irish Gaelic: the giant's bed-fellows / Seosamh Watson -- The rise and fall of an immigrant language: Norwegian in America / Einar Haugen -- Breton vs. French: language and the opposition of political, economic, social, and cultural values / Lois Kuter -- "Persistence" or "tip" in Egyptian Nubian / Aleya Rouchdy -- Sociolinguistic creativity: Cape Breton Gaelic's linguistic "tip" / Elizabeth Mertz -- Skewed performance and full performance in language obsolescence: the case of an Albanian variety / Lukas D. Tsitsipis -- On the social meaning of linguistic variability in language death situations: variation in Newfoundland French / Ruth King -- The social functions of relativization in obsolescent and non-obsolescent languages / Jane H. Hill.
Problems in obsolescence research: the gros ventres of Montana / Allan R. Taylor -- The structural consequences of language death / Lyle Campbell and Martha C. Muntzel -- On signs of health and death / Eric P. Hamp -- Case usage among the Pennsylvania German sectarians and nonsectarians / Marion Lois Huffines -- Estonian among immigrants in Sweden / Katrin Maandi -- The incipient obsolescence of polysynthesis: Cayuga in Ontario and Oklahoma / Marianne Mithun -- Urban and non-urban Egyptian Nubian: is there a reduction in language skill? / Aleya Rouchdy -- Some lexical and morphological changes in Warlpiri / Edith L. Bavin -- Language contraction and linguistic change: the case of Welland French / Raymond Mougeon and Edouard Beniak -- Lexical innovation and loss: the use and value of restricted Hungarian / Susan Gal -- Some people who don't talk right: universal and particular in child language, aphasia, and language obsolescence / Lise Menn.