Endangered languages in Africa
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Beschreibung
Der vorliegende Band beinhaltet Vorträge, die im Rahmen des "Symposium on Endangered Languages in Africa" vom 29.7.-1.8.1997 in Leipzig gehalten wurden. Die Aufsätze tragen allgemein zum Verständnis der aktuellen Bedrohung von Sprachen auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent bei. Weiterhin werden Fallstudien einzelner bedrohter Sprachen vorgestellt.
Inhalt:
Matthias Brenzinger: Endangered Languages and Language Endangerment in Africa: Introduction
Richard J. Hayward: The Endangered Languages of Ethiopia: What's at Stake for the Linguist?
Gabriele Sommer: Reconstructing the Past: Historical Linguistics, Contact- induced Change, Language Shift and Relexification
Gerrit Dimmendaal: Language Contraction versus other Types of Contact- induced Change
Mauro Tosco: "People who are not the language they speak": On Language Shift without Language Decay in East Africa
David L. Appleyard: Language Death: The Case of Qwarenya (Ethiopia)
Zelealem Leyew: Some Structural Signs of Obsolescence in K'emant
Roger Blench: The Status of the Languages of Central Nigeria
Bruce Connell: Moribund Languages of the Nigeria-Cameroon Borderland
Andrew Haruna: Language Death: The Case of Bubburè in Southern Bauchi Area, Northern Nigeria
Raimund Kastenholz: Language Shift and Language Death among Mande Blacksmiths and Leatherworkers in the Diaspora
Herman Batibo: The Fate of the Khoesan Languages of Botswana
Autor*in
Gerrit Dimmendaal